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...Fortnight ago, he chose to accept a 45-day jail sentence-rather than pay a $178 fine-for his role in an earlier Albany protest march. But hardly was he clapped behind bars when a man described by police as a "well-dressed Negro" paid the fine anyway; his benefactor was not identified, but the talk around Albany was that the whites themselves had paid the fine to keep King from becoming a more powerful rallying point. Some of Albany's Negroes somehow expected that King's mere presence in town would bring "freedom here...
...bikini-ed girl in the next picture, the day was a fine chance to show off attributes that cold-weather dress somehow does not emphasize. Also, if one can judge from the look in her benefactor's eyes, it was a chance to learn how much an ice-cream cone was worth...
...Palmer Dixon '25, is the benefactor. Dixon, one of the greatest Harvard squash players of all time, also sponsored the 1959 renovation of the University squash courts and the construction of the new galleries in Hemenway completed in the Fall...
...walks and wets the well-healed souls of those who in the hour of peril venture forth. O, to be depourvu, bereft, and rid of that unwelcome intercessor in these parts, whose subtle liquid motions bring discomfiture and weight depressing on our hearts. O, to be witness and delighted benefactor of efficient snow removal would elicit nightingale-like our most heartiest approval. Banish then the ibis of the wood, return the hush; banish then the offal of the slopping through the slush...
...meek, efficient, trusted. By 1936, Balaguer was under secretary for the presidency and the little man around the palace to perform odd jobs. He went on from diplomatic missions (to Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, Mexico) to Cabinet posts (Education, External Affairs), and finally, in 1957, to Vice President under the benefactor's puppet President, Brother Hector. Last year, when Trujillo sensed growing resistance, he removed Hector and installed Balaguer to stage a "democratization" of the tight little island fief...