Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hole Beverly Hills Country Club course is finished in 1969, he fully expects that 600 young Negroes, Jews and Italians from all walks of life will have coughed up their $25,000 apiece to play golf. After all, with Dean Martin, 49, set to be their president, who could afford...
Rebuilding a River Port. With that backing, Wesleyan can afford to try out new ideas. It is pumping $3,000,000 into a development company to help rebuild its home community of Middletown, a once busy river port with declining industries and fading neighborhoods. One project will be a model community to be built on nearby farm land, which Wesleyan hopes will make the area more attractive to recruitable professors. Wesleyan also gives about half of its students financial help in meeting the $3,350 annual cost of attending school; next fall 37 Negroes-10% of the freshman class-will...
...money, is Wesleyan heading? Etherington hopes that all of the planning committees and consultants will come up with a variety of options. Wesleyan might go coed, develop new graduate studies, add law or medical schools, or reach out to expand its community services. Whatever the eventual choices, Wesleyan can afford to take its time. Says Etherington, with comfortable and enviable assurance: "The worst way to spend money is to buy the first thing off the shelf...
Uncrossed Legs. The prices for a hostess are as aristocratic as the girls, ranging from $31 to $42 for an eight-hour day. Most people who can afford it find it well worthwhile. Not only are the ladies of H.I. extremely attractive; they are also smartly turned out in red wool uniforms by Jean Patou and hairdos by Jean-Louis David. Before they are allowed to serve on H.I., they must submit to a demanding 21-month training program. It includes courses in Paris history, French government, sophisticated shopping hints and "civilization" - a class in which they learn esoteric tips...
Along with these justifications for our request for an increased rate of compensation, we should at least make some attempt to answer beforehand the most obvious objection that can be made to any such request: That Harvard simply cannot afford...