Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Balanced Budget. Jamaica's moderate prosperity is new-found and self-made. Britain, whose absentee landlords drained fat profits from the place with regularity after the British routed the Spaniards* in 1655, did not grant Jamaica limited self-government until 1944. At that time the island was so run-down that a visiting British commissioner called it "a dung heap of physical abomination...
...some very bad," Leach comments. Army Col. Grank A. Osmanski, a Business School student, formed a student group which handled administrative details and preparation of literature for the program last year. "Osmanski literally saved the entire project," Leach entusiastically states. Now Leach's staff, available since the Ford grant, prepares and distributes reading for each week's session, freeing the students for more productive work in the course...
...month wait for an answer from the Foundation made it clear that if the program was going to hire more people, Leach couldn't wait for the grant to come through. Bundy took the risk for hiring Edward L. Katzenbach from Columbia. But Katzenbach wasn't enough. Leach needed both senior men in areas relative to defense study and young men to conduch research. He gambled and hired the men he felt necessary, guaranteeing the University that if the grand did not materialize he would pay the salaries of the new staff from his own pocket...
...Harvard, meanwhile, the Committee on Compensation, headed by Dean Bundy, has recently reported to President Pusey. On the basis of its findings, Pusey will shortly make his recommendations to the Corporation concerning distribution of Harvard's $4.5 million grant...
...increases are not all due to the Foundation's grant. Kirk announced that tuition fees will be raised $150 a year, beginning next September, to cover the additional expenses...