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Where did some of the angry natives so resent a local benefactor that they wore buttons proclaiming "No Man Is an Island"? See BUSINESS, Trading Up Nantucket...
...additional $4 million in gifts. His final bequest will total several million dollars more when the additional parts of his estate left to Harvard are liquidated. James R. Reynolds, assistant to the president for Development, said yesterday the additional funds could make Mallinckrodt the University's most generous benefactor...
...Graduate School of Design has received a gift of $1 million from John L. Loeb '24 as part of its $11.6 million fund drive. Loeb was the major benefactor of the Loeb Drama Center...
...Moscow for the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Abdullah Sallal, the President of Republican Yemen, stopped off in Cairo to see his erstwhile benefactor, Gamal Abdel Nasser. He could hardly have expected a warm reunion. Nasser had grown tired of propping up the unpopular Sallal, whose refusal to make peace with the Yemeni Royalists had cost him the support of even his own followers. Even so, Sallal was unprepared for the reception he got. In a brief and chilly meeting, Nasser advised him to resign and go into exile...
...this point, there is only so much the Faculty can do to soothe the students who obstructed the Dow recruiter. Few professors would ever accept restrictions on the work they do for the government, classified or not. Research expenses are high these days and the government is the richest benefactor. This factor, of course, pales before the spectre of possible incursions upon academic freedom. For University policy dictates only that a professor meet his commitments to the Faculty and students. The rest of his time is virtually...