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...legal gold will only draw funds from more socially worthwhile investments: to get up the $52.79, Carlenne cashed two U.S. savings bonds. As an object lesson in the personal hazards of gold ownership, there is the experience of New York's Conservative-Republican Senator James Buckley. A vigorous backer of legal gold on the Hill, Buckley triumphantly plunked down $480 to buy three wafers totaling 2½ oz. from a Manhattan dealer a few moments after it became legal to do so. At week's end his wafers were worth about...
...written by one of Wells' clients, right-wing Author Victor Lasky, who had already produced J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth and Robert F. Kennedy: the Myth and the Man. After a meeting that lasted 15 minutes, Rockefeller asked his brother Laurance to find some financial backers. Laurance, in fact, became the sole backer, contributing $65,000. A corporation was set up in Delaware to handle the publication. But the book had minimal impact on the campaign. Rocky thought so little of the book that he did not get around to reading it until two days before his appearance...
...more than two decades, the fraternal order was the chief backer of the hospital. But then Mound Bayou got some help from Washington. In 1967 the Office of Economic Opportunity gave Tufts University funds to establish a community health center half a mile from the hospital. The center began referring its patients to the institution, and by 1972 more than $5.5 million worth of OEO funds, mainly in salaries, were being put into the area's faltering economy...
...sponsored in the legislature lost by a single vote, and he plans to push it again as Governor. But he has also supported a variety of other causes. He managed to win passage of the nation's first therapeutic abortion law in 1967. He was a major backer of no-fault insurance; he fought so hard for child-abuse legislation that admirers floridly called him "champion of the battered child...
Nine actors dressed in black, representing each city councilor, presented a cardboard model of Cambridge to two actors holding a banner bearing a picture of MIT, which is a principal backer of the Neighborhood Plan...