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Meals and Medicare. Also genuinely devoted to their pets are such people as Glen Crank, a blue-collar worker in Hammond, Ind., whose dependents include a poodle, a pointer, a Saint Bernard (caskless), a cat, a ferret and a cougar named Rajah; to defray Rajah's $1,000 acquisition costs, say the Cranks, they had to "eat beans for months." (They have since been forced by neighborhood pressure to give Rajah to a local zoo.) The potentates of petdom may well be the 65 dogs whose meals and Medicare are assured by the will of Quaker State Oil Heiress...
...function of the Political Rights Defense Fund is to collect money to defray these costs and to publicize the case. PRDF's Boston chapter, of which this writer is a member, is presently contacting chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union around the state in an effort to secure their endorsement of the suit. Nationally, prominent people in many fields, who may or may not agree with the SWP's political views, have seen fit to endorse the suit as well. These sponsors include: Eric Bentley, the Berrigans, Noam Chomsky, Rep. Ron Dellums (D-Calif.), Daniel Ellsberg, Jules Feiffer...
...nation's 118 to 120 million licensed drivers over the age of 18 would be mailed a card entitling him or her to buy a month's supply of ration coupons, most likely at a bank or post office. Price: $1 per packet, to defray the $1.4 billion annual cost of the program. The basic ration would be a rather spartan 32 to 35 gallons a month, enough to permit only about 100 miles of driving a week in the average American...
President Nguyen Van Thieu, who had backed Diem's overthrow, helped defray the costs of the commemoration with a $1,000 contribution, presumably in hopes of using the incipient Diem cult to solidify non-Communist ranks within the country. He is in no danger of being overthrown as Diem was. But growing economic problems at home, along with the continuing threat of a North Vietnamese military offensive, mean Thieu needs all the help...
...days before Watergate became the national preoccupation, one of the most prominent skeletons in the White House closet was the allegation that the Administration had quietly settled a 1971 antitrust case against ITT, the giant conglomerate, in return for an ITT offer of up to $400,000 to help defray the cost of the Republicans' 1972 national convention in San Diego (later switched to Miami). Columnist Jack Anderson published an ITT memorandum last year that appeared to substantiate the charge. But before ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard, the author of the memo, could give testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee...