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After retiring from Harvard in 1960, Bender served as a director of the Boston Permanent Charity Fund and was appointed a member of the Massachusetts Crime Commission...
...radicals will rally behind" the eight demonstrators also indicted. After the radicals stage "huge demonstrations, go on television with their attacks on the government and the courts," Mabley said, they may raise as much as $200,000. He pleaded for $80,000 in donations to the police defense fund. "The time has come for the people of Chicago to stand up and be counted," he declared...
Blurred Vision. In the Daily News, Columnist Mike Royko gently needled Mabley's pitch for big money. "I don't want to feel completely left out," Royko wrote. "That's why I am starting a noninflationary, low-cost fund drive of my very own. About $600 or $700 will do the trick." It is needed, he said, by Roy Ries Jr., a Presbyterian seminarian who had tried to avoid violence by standing with other clergymen between police and demonstrators. Ries, Royko claims, received a fractured skull and still has blurred vision from a rifle-butt blow...
...U.A.W. originally brought up inverted seniority during contract talks in both 1964 and 1967 but got nowhere. The auto companies, which pay most of the bill for unemployment benefits (Ford's fund totals $80 million), fear that the idea would make production cut-lacks so costly as to be self-defeating. In effect, they complain, inverted seniority could force the industry indirectly to pay two men for one job. They also worry that the scheme might destroy incentive and strip plants of experienced workers...
Accordingly, I have informed the Corporation that until such a time as they honor the Faculty resolution, I will be withholding my previously pledged annual donation to the Harvard College Fund...