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...fiscal year just ended, to a probable $100 million in the fiscal year just begun. It musters the efforts of 675 direct employees and thousands of independent researchers through grants and contracts. NCI's budget embraces almost 80% of all U.S. outlays for cancer research. Next biggest backer: the American Cancer Society, with $9,250,000 a year...
...deficit this year of $10.5 million), court reform, a tough law on automatic suspension for convicted speeders, a tourist-luring ad campaign, abolition of the 300-year-old county-government system. A Jew, he has since 1956 gone into other states-last week into California-as an all-out backer of Roman Catholic Jack Kennedy...
Potshots and all. Kennedy was obviously running first and fast. Said National Chairman Paul Butler, a perennial Stevenson backer, last week, "I would be less than fair if I did not say Senator Kennedy has substantial support throughout the country. Perhaps more than any other potential candidate...
...Hear It Now series (more than 500,000 albums sold), founded the Columbia LP Record Club, the nation's first and now its biggest (more than 1,000,000 members) record club. When the stage production of My Fair Lady was searching for a backer, Lieberson persuaded Columbia Broadcasting System, owner of Columbia Records, to put up $250,000, not only struck gold on the show but began minting it when Columbia's Fair Lady album became the industry's biggest all-time LP hit (2,500,000 copies). Yet he does not hesitate to record what...
Roche underwrote the basilica, but in return demanded complete control of all basilica finances in Lourdes. He formed a small controlling group called "Association of the Friends of Lourdes" (among the members: Backer Melvina Rivet), which promptly required shrine passes from all pilgrims (86^ for French, $1.72 for foreigners), launched sidelines to bring in more money-sale of medals, souvenirs, books. Aghast at more commercialism, Bishop Théas protested to Rome, which finally sent a coadjutor bishop to keep an eye on the enterprising association...