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Fitzgerald sees Harvard as a potential benefactor to the community, and says he's willing to negotiate. He uses words like "trust" and "co-operative spirit" to describe what he hopes will be a new relationship between Mission Hill and Harvard. He sees the power plant as a stabilizing factor, providing construction jobs to unemployed Mission Hill workers through guaranteed local hiring practice clauses in construction contracts...
...were uncomfortably mulling over the various laws he had broken, including filing false flight plans, he is likely to get off with a wrist slap. More worrisome to Meeker were the uninsured damages to the helicopter, which could cost him anywhere from $23,000 to $39,000-unless a benefactor turns up to bail...
...rational. In fact, there had been increasing acrimony in Santa Barbara, and everything was in a shambles. The center, nearly out of funds, was planning to move to Chicago. The president had resigned, the staff had been cut to the bone, and the center's last major financial benefactor said that he would withdraw his support...
...country tried to speed the emigration process. A breakthrough came when Edward Daly, the bluff president of World Airways (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) arranged with the U.S.'s Friends of All Children agency in Saigon to fly 450 orphans to the U.S. Daly has long been a benefactor of Vietnamese orphanages and offered to pay for the flight himself. But Saigon-based officials of the U.S. Agency for International Development told Friends of All Children that Daly's DC-8 would be unsafe. On the shortest notice, Daly turned to two other orphan agencies, which quickly produced 60 children...
...Hollywood media prophets tell me anyway. We'll be seeing awards for "Best Holographic Effects in a Documentary" and the winner will come up and say something nasty about President (Julie) Eisenhower and her foreign policy. Then he'll get booed down because President Eisenhower is a personal friend, benefactor and symbol of about half the people there. And Bob Hope will make a joke about...