Word: fund
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raise money for the expensive venture. Radcliffe called on wealthy friends and alumnae to donate funds "to enhance undergraduate life particularly for those students living in the Quadrangle Houses," read the fundraising literature. The statement did not say non-Quad residents would not be allowed to use the gym. As with Currier House and Hilles Library, the fund raising efforts were billed as an attempt to improve life at the Quad, but not at the exclusion of other University student...
...largest and most active of the relief organizations involved are the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). Working jointly, along with such related U.N. agencies as the Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Program, the two groups have so far sent 2,500 tons of food and supplies into Cambodia and undisclosed amounts of aid to refugee camps that they operate in Thailand. As the principal agencies through which governmental contributions are funneled into Cambodia, ICRC and UNICEF have already received pledges totaling $137 million, well above...
...Daughter Soames, Churchill behaved like "a spoiled and naughty child." Clementine, for her part, was almost too responsible; she drove herself and others mercilessly. In addition to running several residences, entertaining and helping Winston win elections, she took on huge administrative jobs: organizing canteens during both wars and heading fund-raising drives...
...begun to seem like a permanent alliance with show business itself. In season, the same names that decorate the gossip columns and Variety begin popping up in political chronicles. Last week a squiblet on Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin turned out to be a note about a Boston fund raiser for Ronald Reagan. Singer Glen Campbell, it seems, is slated to give a benefit concert for John Connally. From the White House, via a guest list for a recent campaign dinner, comes word that supporters of the Carter-Mondale team include Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Cheryl Ladd, Leontyne Price, Andre...
...campaign treasuries in 1976 out of the proceeds of concerts by celebrated musical performers. Singer Linda Ronstadt was producing bucks for Governor Jerry Brown long before the two of them had become a hot gossip-column item. The Allman Brothers and Johnny Cash similarly helped out Jimmy Carter. This fund-raising mode was facilitated by a financing law that allowed concert receipts to be considered as donations not of the performers but of ticket-buying members of the audience. There will be more political concerts though the law has been tightened to curtail the federal matching money that...