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Much of the reason for choosing an economist, then, was economic. As Lester Gordon, current director of HIID, explains, the HIID's annual income from its endowment is a meagre $28,000. Almost 80 per cent of the Institute's operating budget comes from its consulting work. As a result, the HIID has been unable to devote much of its resources to research and teaching, but has instead concentrated on the advising end of the operation...
...strong anti-Nazi tract, half drama, half propaganda. The 1943 movie version, with Bette Davis and, Paul Lukas, can still evoke tears and anger on the late show. New Haven's Long Wharf Theater put it on the boards last year, and Producer Lester Osterman, who was in the audience, decided to bring it to Broadway: "The audience there was enthusiastic. I was crying." With three co-producers he raised $225,000 and opened the play Jan. 3 at the John Golden Theater on West 45th Street...
...director; practically speaking, his job is to run the place. Subject to the approval of the governing board, he chooses the staff, including the permanent Institute Fellows, and decides which nations the Institute will help out. Because the HIID's budget is limited, he will have to make choices. Lester Gordon, the current director, said that the HIID is now "declining more aid requests and contract proposals than we're accepting...
...Lester Grinspoon, associate professor of psychiatry at the University-affiliated Massachusetts Mental Health Center, said although he does not believe marijuana is safe there has been a lot of misleading or inaccurate research into its detrimental effects. These effects have been exaggerated, he added...
Focusing on this listless triangle, Lester and Screenwriter Wood present as a dazzling insight into the smugness of power a scene showing Batista absorbed in a Christopher Lee vampire movie as Castro moves in for the kill. The decadence of Batista's supporters appears about as wild as that of the fast crowd in an Ohio country club, while Castro's revolutionaries behave like a hirsute Boy Scout troop. It is hard to believe that this dumb picture is the work of the director who did the delicious Three Musketeers movies...