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...hidden problem of indirect costs, which can drain a university's funds, were a prime concern of the recent Cheever Report on Harvard and Federal Aid. The reported change in policy by the AEC was just a false alarm, according to Wiggins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Profit From AEC Denied | 11/9/1961 | See Source »

...growing weary of the French attitude of offering objections without any help. Replying to an equally anxious note from Germany's Konrad Adenauer, Kennedy assured West German Ambassador Wilhelm Grewe in no uncertain terms that he does not intend to let West Berlin go down the drain, or to make any concessions at West Germany's expense. But he held out no false hopes of German reunification, which he feels is unrealistic so long as Russian troops and a Moscow-backed government control East Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Toughening Up | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

...story makes Agganis a kind of displaced restaurateur who soothes the ulcers of "Mr. General," the camp commander (Roland Winters), with such far-out Hellenic treats as octopus and goats' bladders. The resulting buddyhood is so mawkish that most of Act II goes down the sentimental drain. There are two rowdy high spots. At one point, Mr. General's two-star superior (John McGiver) stuns the camp and apoplectrifies himself by Jeeping in on a Greek-styled folk fling, where he finds the cook and Mr. General doing kick-ups (in non-Government-issue evzone skirts and tasseled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Silly Psychos | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...Countess wants but one thing release from the awful curse that compels her nightly so drain the blood of an innocent person. In her struggle in symbolized men's attempt to free himself from his own instincts...

Author: By Mary Shelley, | Title: Dracula's Daughter | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...University in the matter of "unreimbursed costs." "In sufficient magnitudes, Federal grants can make a university poorer rather than richer by building up unreimbursed costs (overhead, etc.). More than one Faculty at Harvard has fond it necessary to limit its participation in desirable programs lest their indirect costs drain away its unrestricted income," says Cheever. The report has brought this problem up for debate among those in the community who ought to be concerned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Federal Aid and the University | 10/11/1961 | See Source »

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