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Some Harvard officials are beginning to fret about the giant scale of the plans, but it may not be necessary. For there already is talk among the fund-raising enthusiasts about giving up the Harvard-donated site and purchasing a much bigger property...
...fact is that the Lodge people simply do not know what their man intends to do-and among those who are most interested but too busy to fret about it are Lodge's top field workers, a frolicking Massachusetts foursome who are having a barrelful of fun spending buckets of money they haven't got. Still owing $7,500 of the $25,000 cost of their New Hampshire campaign, they remain intoxicated with that triumph and have committed themselves to pouring $75,000 into Oregon. Explains the group's leader, Paul Grindie, 43, a bouncy scientific instruments...
There had long since ceased to be any doubt that the Senate would pass the tax cut. What continued to fret the Johnson Administration was the possibility that the bill would be so amended as to make it ineffectual as a spur to the U.S. economy...
...bustling pace of 20th century business often slows to a pleasant walk in Idaho. In the state's sylvan surroundings, many businessmen duck-hunt before work, water-ski after work, and fret less about growth charts than about the potato crop. It seems an unlikely setting for a modern, aggressive company. But that is just what Idaho has in the Boise Cascade Corp., which has grown in only six years into a major enterprise and a magnet for Eastern-trained executives...
...After Staubach, who? In the year of the quarterback "it's a tossup," says one scout. Nevertheless, the majority choice is Southern Cal's Pete Beathard, 21 (6 ft. 2 in., 205 lbs.). "A winner all his life," reads a report. "Capable of throwing the bomb." Scouts fret that Miami's George Mira, 21 (5 ft. 11 in., 180 lbs.), may be too small, but he will be a high draft choice ("He'll have a lot of money waved in his face"), as will Boston College's Jack Concannon...