Word: funds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...name the top-ranking three. With a few other large exceptions, foundations scale sharply down from there. Only about 1,500, or about one in 13, are worth as much as $1,000,000, and there are plenty of mini-foundations, such as Chicago's Robbins Charitable Fund, with assets...
Though ABC and NBC have also stepped up their coverage of offbeat stories, neither so far has matched Kuralt's diversity or unabashed do-goodness. In Holbrook, Mass., he told of a fund drive for the infant son of a Navy pilot who, by diverting his crippled jet away from a school and residential area, sacrificed his own life. In Westerville, Ohio, Kuralt interviewed John Franklin Smith, 87, who upon retiring as a teacher at Otterbein College stayed on as a janitor; the old man remarked that he was still "looking ahead" because there were so many "good books...
...around. Now that most of them jet off to play musical podiums with the world's far-flung orchestras, they scarcely have time to guide the artistic policy of their own ensembles, plan the programs, select the soloists, learn new works, rehearse and perform-let alone address fund-raising luncheons of the ladies' clubs. The best of today's established conductors are thus tired, aging, or both. The Boston Symphony's Erich Leinsdorf, 55, who has announced that he plans to resign at the end of the 1969 season because of his killing schedule, likens himself...
...denied rumors that outside pressure had been brought to bear on him not to take any formal action against the club. Rumors had been circulating throughout the University that interested undergraduates had sent letters to wealthy Republicans asking that they exert economic pressure on the University's then current fund drive...
...flurry of demands for Barnard's presence. CBS paid his air fare to the U.S. so that he could be interviewed on Face the Nation (TIME, Jan. 5)-and, according to CBS News President Richard Salant, donated $5,000 in a charitable gesture to the Christiaan Barnard Research Fund. Suddenly, says Lucy Jarvis, "we found ourselves shut out. We could hardly get near him"-although Barnard did appear on NBC's Today show...