Word: donors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...donor's request, the collection--one of the world's largest--will be renamed the Robert Jordon Theatre Collection after Robert Jordon '06, Boston merchant and enthusiast of the arts...
Because hapless Truman Newberry spent the then shocking sum of $195,000 to win a U.S. Senate seat from Michigan in 1918, Congress-six years later -passed the Corrupt Practices Act. The law's principal proviso is that no single donor may give more than $5,000 to any one national campaign organization. As a result, candidates who are seriously interested in winning commonly set up dozens of such organizations; thus a big contributor can simply spread his largesse around in $5,000 wads...
...cold light of these figures, many questions arise. Were heart transplants begun prematurely? Have there been too many? Or too few? Did the mere existence of the procedure arouse false hope in patients for whom no donor heart could be found? Is it better to die after long hospitalization and distressing drug treatment, with a transplanted heart, than to die a little earlier with one's natural, inborn heart? What hope does the immediate future offer for longer and healthier survival...
...beginning of October, a member of the Slavic department had translated the poster into English from the original Russian, Czech, and German. The exhibit, on loan from the donor, wil continue through this month...
...foundation could solicit money from alumni,"Calkins said, "and then invest it in areas like Roxbury and Harlem. As the loans were paid back, the money would go to a college of the donor's choice...