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...building will consolidate all the activities of the Center and bring it under the same roof with regional centers, such as the Russian Research Center); $45 million is endowing nine new chairs; and the remaining $5.5 million is being used annually to support research. The Center gets a large chunk of that money; last year, for instance it received $515,000. And to supplement this, the Center is receiving an increasingly large amount of money in public funds...
...station wagon and light-truck Jeeps, Kaiser's grip on the domestic market has been weakened by a couple of upstart Jeep-style sports models: International Harvester's Scout and Ford's Bronco. Moreover, the profit margin on sales to the military, still a large chunk of the company's U.S. business, has felt a pinch. As a result, Kaiser Jeep owes its 1965 operating profits of $4.9 million (on sales of $311 million) mostly to its overseas sales...
...Sever Hall classrooms were ordered closed by Massachusetts Public Safety inspectors late yesterday, after a chunk of ceiling fell in on room 36 for the second time in three days...
...five foot square chunk of the ceiling of Sever 36 fell in on Professor Raoul Bott's Math 11 class yesterday morning upsetting a wastebasket, a chair, and a desk and covering students in the front row with dust...
...them really gave much of a damn about being Jewish. Then anger turned to consternation when it developed that Mama was really planning the most Jewish act of her life: under the benign influence of Mr. Ellenbogan, Mama was going to endow an Israeli university with a great chunk of the family fortune...