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...funds for the kits, which cost $5.25 each, may stop their national distribution. Much of the start-up money for the Illinois program came from the federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, which in 1980 became a victim of Washington budget cuts. The program has also lost its other original benefactor: the Playboy Foundation...
Harvard and three other Ivy League schools are investigating charges that several student-athletes improperly received gifts or favors from an unidentified benefactor. University sources said yesterday...
...itself, the act of accepting a donation does not imply an endorsement of the views or actions of the benefactor. --Open Letter...
...then released on the grounds that no immigration laws were violated. They were hired by John Miller, a British ne'er-do-well and hanger-on at the fringes of London's upper crust. Miller claimed he had been paid nearly $70,000 by an unknown benefactor for advance rights to the story and film rights of Biggs' capture. Explained Miller: "I have no personal vindictiveness against Biggs. I guess he robbed his train for the same reason we're doing this - for money...
...INEXORABLE FORCES of history have finally caught up with that inexorable force of the past, the Harvard English Department. Some anonymous and mischievious benefactor has offered the University $1 million for a professorship in those rarefied precincts, provided the holder is a woman. Harvard's last sanctuary is about to be violated, and there are inhabitants thereof who do not wish to see it happen...