Word: funds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decolonization. The ad--signed by Ronald Webster, chairman of the Anguilla Island Council, but largely written by Howard Gossage, a San Francisco ad man--promised honorary Anguillian citizenship to Americans who contributed $100 to the fledgling state, and told prospective contributors to send money to "The Anguilla Trust Fund, Chase Manhattan Bank, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands...
...solution outlined by Mosteller's group is two-fold. First, the Houses would buy time on their own consoles nightly from 8 p.m. to midnight for relatively unrestricted undergraduate use. Second, the Faculty would allocate a separate fund, to be administered through the departments, for course work involving greater input and therefore requiring...
...seed money would come from a revolving fund of $1 million, of which Harvard and M.I.T. pledged to contribute half. The remaining $500,000 would be put up by business and industry in Cambridge. The Corporation, as in Myerson's original scheme, would rarely give money away. Rather it would be a source from which money could be borrowed quickly with a minimum of red tape...
K.S.C.'s students would have none of it. Hastily, they organized a fund-raising drive called "Project S O S" and dashed off thousands of letters to prospective donors. They manned telephones for 100 hours running, composed radio appeals, dispatched one member to Manhattan to seek foundation money, even sent another to Las Vegas to knock on Howard Hughes's gilded door. Neither traveler succeeded, but their enterprise made such an impression on K.S.C. Board Chairman L. LeRoy Highbaugh Jr., who made millions in real estate, that he donated $800,000 to the salvage effort...
...Impossible Dream." That dream, to be sure, still has a deadline: a $3,500,000 transfusion is needed if K.S.C. is to stay open for five more years. But the college's undaunted students have no doubt that they can raise the money. They are already planning another fund-raising project. As for the University of Louisville, which was beaten out of its merger, it is on a financial treadmill itself and is negotiating for a merger with the University of Kentucky...