Word: fund
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...students with noncontroversial entertainment and relief from the rigors of the two-year program. And there are many M. B. A. students who would like the SA to continue to limit its activities to "safe" and certainly non-political endeavors-such as Christmas gala affairs, blood drives, and United Fund drives. What they are finding to their great dismay and discomfort, is that these types of activities are no longer adequate to contain the energies and intellects of a growing liberal contingent. Thus, we have Hokanson frantically calling the press in order to nullify the Constitutional rights of nearly...
Together, Leonard and Satterfield were fighting suits brought by the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, which asked the court to order immediate desegregation of school districts in Mississippi. Citing 15 years of evasion by the state, Defense Fund Attorney Jack Greenberg argued in his brief that such an edict was necessary "so that protracted litigation loses its attractiveness as a tactic for delaying desegregation." By contrast, Leonard urged the Justices to affirm a lower-court order that gives the school boards until Dec. 1 to submit new desegregation plans-but sets no deadline for implementation. "Disestablishment of a dual school system...
Prominent among the innumerable faults of this lumpish production is some of the most embarrassing acting of the year. Pleasence and, surprisingly, Brynner are both amusing, but Danny Kaye performs as if he were addressing a fund-raising rally for UNICEF. As for Katharine Hepburn, she has long since shrouded herself in her mannerisms. If anyone parodied her as outrageously as she parodies herself, she could easily sue for libel...
...Cambridge-based Armenian organization launched a five-year subscription campaign in 1955 that raised about $380,000 for the new fund at Harvard. Over 1500 separate donations were solicited throughout the United States, with contributions ranging from $1 to $70,000. The largest donation came from the Gulbenkian Foundation in Portugal, established by a famous oil tycoon, nicknamed "Mr. Five Per Cent...
...University provided an additional $100,000 from the Harvard Profit and Loss Fund, a reserve account that Young said exists in case bad investment returns make it impossible to meet departmental budgets with already-allocated funds...