Word: funds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...borrow an image from F. Scott Fitzgerald, the musical landscape is like the ears of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg poised over a valley of ash in which there rests a supine multitude, with a string quartet in the middle playing uneasily. Yet there precariously exists among these people a fund of instinctive love for art. The problem is that this regard, if it hasn't been ground to pieces by our throttling social injustices, or bred out by our mortuary suburbs, easily deteriorates into arch-conservative sentimentality. Someone has to periodically throw some sulphur on the public's idols by burying...
Henry F. Colt Jr. '47 will become one of Harvard's chief fund-raisers on July...
Colt is presently executive director of the Harvard College Fund, which raises funds from alumni for general use by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Colt will be replacing James R. Reynolds '23, who has been involved in Harvard fund-raising for the last 20 years...
After De Gaulle's departure, speculators rushed to buy marks, knocking the franc, the dollar and the pound to the lower limits set by the International Monetary Fund. The prospects of another franc devaluation-the eighth since World War II-caused French bank notes to sell at a 10% discount abroad, and the price of gold in Paris reached record highs. French reserves fell for the twelfth consecutive week, while German Bundesbank reserves jumped by $400 million. Only the strict French currency controls prevented a much sharper shift out of francs and into marks...