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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...polls are any indication, about one out of every five voters?something like 14 million Americans?will choose the moment's satisfaction and pick Wallace and General Curtis LeMay, his running mate, next month. Fervent Wallaceites may, of course, decide at the last minute that a vote for their man is a wasted ballot and switch to either Humphrey or Nixon, but there is no evidence that this will happen. Thousands echo the opinion of Charles Gutherie, a cement finisher from Los Angeles: "You take Nixon and Humphrey and shake 'em up in a bag and they come...
...join Wallace "Patriots' Clubs" and lunch with the candidate when he comes to town. In Dallas last month, Wallace dined with such "plain folk" as Mrs. Nelson Bunker Hunt, daughter-in-law of Oil Billionaire H. L. Hunt; Paul Pewitt, who has a $100 million fortune from Texas oil and Idaho potatoes; and M. H. Marr, an oilman worth about $10 million. However much money he has, the average Wallace booster is what Political Analyst Samuel Lubell calls a "recent getter," someone who has worked hard for what he has and is fearful of losing...
...projected budget shows a drop of more than $1 million in Faculty income. Much of this will come from discontinued government grant programs, Ford said...
...Faculty's projected expenses are also more than $3.5 million higher than last year. Salaries for Corporation appointees will rise by $1.2 million, the report predicted, and nearly every other expense item will increase every by about 10 per cent...
...projected $2.4 million deficit actually occurs, Ford said, the Faculty's "departmental balance" will not be enough to cover the deficit. The departmental balance is a reserve fund--of some $500,000--saved from Faculty surpluses, which can be used to make up any year's deficit. The last time the Faculty had a deficit-- one of $131,000 in 1966-67--the departmental balance was used to cover...