Word: crockford
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...Crockford said the NAICU will work to secure student financial aid, alleviate the "tuition gap" between public and private universities and create a greater interest in private education...
Members of the Association of American Colleges (AAC), which consists of both public and private colleges, formed the NAICU last week because some members felt that the AAC had neglected private colleges, Crockford said...
Richard E. Crockford, a member of the board of directors of NAICU and president of Dean Junior College, yesterday called the new organization "significant" because "it will stress the importance of independent education...
That policy has already caused some notable casualties. Last month the dust sheets went over the chemin de fer tables at Crockford's, which ranked as one of London's oldest and plushest gambling clubs. Founded in 1827, Crockford's was forced to close because its owners' backgrounds did not meet the rigid standards of the new gambling code. George Raft's Colony Sporting Club on Berkeley Square is also shuttered, and Raft himself has been declared persona non grata by the Home Office. Other closings will certainly follow; by year's end Britain...