Word: cash
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Vivian O. Berger '66, of South House and New York City, received the $100 cash award given each year to the ranking senior -- the girl with the highest grade average in her class...
...faith. In 1955, he organized the Puno Credit Union-Peru's first-with 23 members and $25 capital. While private banks were paying 4% interest on savings and lending at 20%, Father Dan's union paid 6%, loaned at 12%. Before long, the villagers were depositing what cash they had in the union. In its first two years it loaned $150,000, which brought the town, among other items, its first X-ray machine and modern dental equipment. Convinced that there was no "better way for the people to help themselves," Father Dan criss-crossed Peru by Jeep...
Leverett has numerous advantages for making the adaptation. Because the House has two libraries, the Old Library can be used in conjunction with the Junior Common Room as an art gallery. Students are drawn to Leverett's competition from all over the College by the cash awards, in all areas, of $50 for first prize, $25 for second, and $15 for third. Finally, the House can graphically symbolize--and advertise--the Arts Festival with its "Space Frame," a geometric structure in the Towers' Courtyard made of sticks and strings and reminiscent of a World's Fair pavillion...
This defensiveness, plus the huge ideological gap between gubernatorial Democrats and legislative Republicans, made it difficult and rather useless for Fifties Liberals to conceive of any sort of political compromise. This attitude did not serve Williams well in the 1959 cash crisis--the incident which destroyed his national and severely damaged his local reputation. State revenues had simply dried up during the 1957-58 recession, and when Williams presented a reasonable tax program, the legislature, eager to increase the sales tax, refused to budge. So did Williams. As a result, the state could not meet its payrolls and phrase "payless...
...Harvard rock 'n' roll group called the Chosen Few plan to make it big this summer on a large supply of confidence, a little cash, and an limitation Beach-Boys sound...