Word: funding
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Representing one of the largest collective risks ever taken by the College's admissions office, they are recipients of so-called "gamble-fund" scholarships--grants that since 1957 have brought at least 200 high school seniors with rock-bottom College Board scores and difficult back-grounds to Harvard. The students have come from urban slums, un-accredited Southern high schools, and migrant camps. Their parents, most likely, never finished high school and may have openly discouraged their going to any college, much less Harvard...
Only a few members of the admissions department know who are actually receiving grants from the gamble-fund. The students are told they have normal scholarships from Harvard. "Obviously you don't write a boy and say 'Congratulations, you're a terrible risk,'" explains Peter Briggs '54, director of Freshman Scholarships...
...Comptroller's Office is slated to move first. It will vacate Lehman Hall, Part of the Fund Office will move out of overcrowded Wadsworth Hall, and the Development Office will move out of its rented quarters on Dunster...
Better still, the World Bank-absent from Brazil since 1959-agreed to lend $80 million early this year for power projects. The International Monetary Fund, another long-absent investor, chipped in $125 million, plans to offer $120 million to $180 million more in new standby credit next year. And the U.S., which cut Alianza aid to Brazil to a trickle under Goulart, has granted more than $500 million in technical and economic assistance...
...Klaliff (vice president) of the North Carolina Klan, who, according to his wife, had been despondent ever since he took the Fifth Amendment last October to avoid telling the House Un-American Activities Committee what he had done with $328 missing and unaccounted for from a Klan legal-defense fund; by his own hand f(.38-cal. pistol); in Granite Quarry...