Word: dollarses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The season's most provocative plan for a Broadway musical came from an unlikely impresario: Poet-Novelist-Historian Robert (The White Goddess) Graves. The subject, announced by Graves during an Israeli lecture tour: Solomon and Sheba. Plans call for only a dozen beauties to represent Solomon's 700...
They point out that the platform on stilts would virtually destroy the recreational and aesthetic value of the Basin, on which millions of dollars have been spent for development.
Harvard said that it would pay the current fair market value of the land--half a million square feet at about five dollars a foot--plus an additional $1,000,000. This extra sum is "to assist the trustees and the operating management of the system to accomplish the necessary...
Not all of the developments in Virginia are so encouraging, however. For the Virginia legislature, urged on by Governor Almond, repealed the compulsory-attendance statute and earmarked three million dollars in scholarship aid for any parents who wished to transfer their students to private schools. Such a provision, though clearly...
Croman proposed that the Council take a serious second look at its fund raising efforts. "In the past, we have fleeced the freshmen by suggesting that the 'average contribution' was five dollars," he explained, "and when they discover the truth, they are indoctrinated with a bitterness toward the Council." He...