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Soliciting for the annual Combined Charities Drive began last night and will continue through Thursday in an attempt to raise over $14,000. Five organizations will be specifically covered by the drive, but students may earmark their contributions for any charity they choose, Gregory B. Stone '58, chairman, said last night...
This group is made up of Harvard graduates who played squash or tennis while undergraduates. Each year Barnaby mails out newsletters to all these men, giving information about the teams and players and asking if they would care to contribute to the support of these squads. A man may earmark his gift for either squash or tennis and also specify whether or not the money is for immediate use or to be used to augment a permanent, interest-gathering squash or tennis fund...
...highly prized honor any student can hope to receive in this country. This is not because the stipend is unusually large--it amounts to 600 pounds, or almost 1700 dollars, per year--but rather because a Rhodes has come to symbolize a brand of all-around excellence which will earmark each individual recipient for the rest of his life...
...report was issued, C.E.D. Chairman James D. Zellerbach, president of Crown-Zellerbach Corp., added a personal postscript: "I don't think a billion dollars a year is too much to earmark for this economic aid job. Certainly it is not a sum which the $400 billion U.S. economy cannot take easily in its stride . . . We should be interested in working with these peoples over a continuing period of time, helping them build up their countries instead of going in only to offset the Russians . . . That way we'll build up a great deal more good will...
Canadian newsprint producers argued that they have had to earmark a high percentage of profits for costly mill expansion to add 900,000 tons to Canada's annual capacity, as well as pay out 15% wage increases in the three years and three months since the last price hike. Even though St. Lawrence profits for the first half of 1955 were 37.3% ahead of the 1954 level, President P. M. Fox said: "We have gone beyond [our] ability to absorb increasing costs." At week's end the Justice Department, which has no jurisdiction over Canadian producers, asked...