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...Ford Foundation cut back its aid to the University by $1.8 million for 1974-75--by far the largest drop of any regular foundation contributor to the University...
...Another contributor reminisced about the good old days when "you could read a guy like a page, top to bottom." Nowadays, wrote Karl Maves, two strangers in a bar may spend more than 20 minutes staring at each other just "to figure out what the hell the other one is supposed to mean." The fellow in cowboy boots and beads, with the blue sequins spelling LOVE on his olive-drab army pants, "must be a sort of butch hippie," a cruiser might speculate. "Or at least non-nellie. Without being anti-nellie of course...
Durocher may be right: nice guys often end as also-rans-but they seem to write better baseball books. Pat Jordan, a frequent contributor to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, is a failure by all professional baseball standards. But it is in the dissection of that failure that his book discloses the dimensions of a man and a game. The young pitcher's career was the polar opposite of Durocher's. A native of Bridgeport, Conn., Jordan was a spectacular Little Leaguer; by the time he reached high school, the Milwaukee Braves awarded him a $35,000 bonus. Sent...
...explains Program Director George Kriste, so that others "wouldn't think they had to be an engineer to contribute." That was no problem, to judge by the number of engaging but totally impracticable suggestions that flooded into Arco's Los Angeles headquarters. For instance, a Chino, Calif., contributor, Dale Jennings, suggested that ardent energy savers be allowed to ride "Bumper-Snatchers"-lightweight pedicabs that could be hooked onto the bumpers of gas-guzzling regular cars at stop lights or highway ramps for a free ride. Another Californian, Mick McMick, urged that Los Angeles be put on "a revolving...
...Ford Foundation has been the leading American contributor to date, pledging $600,000 within the last month to the program providing Harvard can now raise three times that amount...