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When the high cost of Percy's popularity became clear last summer, his former campaign manager, Tom Houser, laid plans to round up some 200 Illinois businessmen to form "the Percy Group," contributing a total of $100,000 annually to help Chuck defray office expenses...
Harvard currently faces a two--and possibly three-way choice of action in regard to Mather House's opening. It can end all off-campus living for undergraduates, or it can deconvert rooms in the existing Houses and at the same increase room rents to defray the additional operating expenses of the new House. The third possibility, increasing the size of Harvard College classes to fill the new House, is considered unlikely...
...provides opportunities, then, for people who are just interested in some cash to defray expenses or to make life a little easier and, also, for people who want the satisfaction of running a business, of setting it up and watching it grow or fail. So long as the latter--the smaller but more visible of the two types--continue to imitate the style, thought, action, and affectations of the business world, there will be criticism of the HSA as a group of money-grubbers. But so long as HSA continues to provide interesting, good-paying jobs for students who want...
...receiving fringe benefits of a technology that may someday support thousands of new desert towns. In addition to moistening the greenhouse soil, the 6,000-gal. daily output of pure water is given to the local hospital and school and is bottled and sold as "Agua Solar" to help defray the plant's operating expenses. And the cucumbers, squash, tomatoes and other vegetables produced in the greenhouses are given away free to local residents...
Sigmund, was looking for people to represent the United States at Vienna and Helsinki who would counter the influence of the United States Festival Committee, a delegation of young American Communists. In some cases, he offered IRS funds to defray traveling expenses...