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Lonely Heart. In Toyama, Japan, Choji Kato, 27, placed an advertisement in a teen-age magazine pleading for female companionship, seduced 96 of the 150 girls who answered, was arrested when police started investigating the series of robberies he had committed to defray dating expenses...
...suit to stop the Central from using its funds to fight him, now he has changed his mind. He asked Central's shareholders to foot the entire cost of his fight. Said Young: "Your board has been persuaded . . . that it would be a discouraging precedent. . . for us to defray our own expenses." Bob Young had also changed his mind in other ways. When he was trying for a foothold on the Central board, he came out foursquare for cumulative voting to give minor stockholders representation on the board, even boasted-at the Albany meeting last year that...
...like arrangements that help foreign nations develop their resources, e.g., Peru's recent $3,630,000 loan from the U.S., to buy wheat and butter, included $2,000,000 to complete a huge irrigation system. The Defense Department and the Treasury prefer deals by which foreign currencies help defray U.S. costs abroad. But not surprisingly, countries where the U.S. has military bases or expensive economic missions figure that the U.S. will have to pay its expenses anyway. So why not hold out for dollars, rather than food, in payment...
Successful early returns, amounting to $3,000, from the current drive of the baseball, tennis, and golf teams for money to defray the expenses of their southern trips during spring vacation have occasioned this optimism, Getchell added. In addition, a specific bequest of $5,000 was given by W. Palmer Dixon '25, to establish a separate squash fund...
Funds given to the Winant Volunteers are used in large part to defray the travel expenses of men and women chosen for the work who are unable to pay their own way. Clearly a mission designed to interpret the United States to London's East-Enders should not be composed exclusively of young people from families in the upper income brackets. As it is, hate--America propagandists portray our country to this group as a nation of millionaires, and a sprinkling of scholarship Winants is needed to refute this claim...