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Bakal chronicles some of the well-known charity deceptions that gulled the generous. Baltimore's Pallottine Fathers, a missionary order, collected about $56 million between 1970 and 1975 to feed and clothe the poor but spent much of it on Florida real estate. Nebraska's Boys Town eagerly solicited funds after it built up a net worth of well over $200 million and an income from investments that was easily enough to cover operating expenses...
...When someone is so good, patient, generous and interested in people it affects everyone in the House," Kiely said. He added he is considering plans for an Adams House memorial service...
...attendance at athletic contests. Both followed the Cubs and the Bears closely. The father encouraged his son's interest in animals--especially dogs--and helped him with photography by building him a darkroom. Reminiscing about her husband and oldest son, Agnes Thompson listed their similarities: "outgoing, friendly, kind and generous...
...Administration's actual gasohol incentive program aims to boost production and consumption. It defers that annual target of 500 million gal. of ethanol production to 1981. While generous, it falls far short of what some had hoped. It fails to ensure that federal farm policies will provide distillers with enough grain year after year. Instead of big new investment tax credits, it offers would-be distillery builders loans and loan guarantees totaling $300 million a year for ten years...
...most mesmerizing pictures are those of the Russian Empire's peasants, who became the object of a near mystical cult in the latter part of the 19th century. Illiterate, impoverished and much abused, the peasants were known for their generous nature and a predilection for violence that sometimes led them to burn down the manor house, or even murder the squire, as happened to Dostoyevsky's serf-owning father. To foreigners they seemed a dismal, squalid lot-the men with their scraggly beards and hair, the women with their inevitable head scarves. Though the peasants were in fact...