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Stanford President Richard W. Lyman called the raid "deplorable and threatening to full freedom of the press." The Stanford administration is helping the Daily gather contributions to defray the cost of its suit, Barringer said...
Students manning the booths raised more than $2000 to help defray the cost of an half-hour political message presented by McGovern and other anti-war senators last night...
Mental and Dental. The Health Insurance Institute reports that 170 million Americans now have insurance to defray hospital expenses and receive more than $7 billion annually in benefits. But in many cases the insurance does not cover all costs, so that $6 billion still has to come out of the insured patients' pockets-and 35 million people have no protection whatever...
Derek C. Bok, dean of the Law School, has granted $700 to defray the expenses of women law students who will travel in the first and second weeks of March to Boston-area and out-of-state colleges to discover and speak to potential candidates. Because of budget limitations, the recruitment effort will be concentrated on colleges in the Boston and New York areas, but an effort will be-made to stretch funds, so that several southern colleges can also be included in the drive...
...stock in Italian firms. The church until recently either controlled or owned a substantial part of at least a dozen important enterprises, including cement-making Italcementi, paper-manufacturing Cartiere Burgo, pasta-making Molini Biondi and Vianini, a major engineering firm. The investments provide a handsome income to help defray the huge cost of running the papal establishment. But social unrest is growing in Italy. Anxious to align the church with the working class, the Vatican wants to escape any onus for closing inefficient plants, laying off workers or sitting on the other side of the bargaining table when unions...