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...Minter, W., Portuguese Africa and the West...
Staying Power. The report, prepared by Howard R. Bowen, former president of California's Claremont Graduate School, and W. John Minter, an educational consultant, was based on a survey of 100 private colleges from 1969 into early 1975. Despite the depressed economy, the report noted that no major private colleges or universities have failed. Although about one-fourth of those surveyed are on shaky financial ground, the total assets of the 100 schools grew by 26%, while their Liabilities were rising by 18%. Income from private gifts went up 34%; government grants showed a 65% increase...
...adhesive tape; then he was dumped into the trunk of a car and taken to a house about an hour's drive from his own. Meanwhile the kidnaper, who called himself a "colonel" of the A.R.A., telephoned word of the abduction to Constitution Managing Editor G. James Minter and to WAGA-TV. "We've got Reg Murphy, editor of the Constitution, "the caller told a TV newsman. "Don't bother to call the FBI. It won't help...
...lodging-which he thought was "an out-of-state motel"-toward Atlanta. At intervals, the kidnapers stopped to make telephone calls-once to find a go-between, who turned out to be a 17-year-old high-school senior named Pam Grant, another time to let a friend of Minter's hear Murphy's voice...
Cases of Money. Satisfied that his colleague was unharmed, Minter followed instructions. He dressed himself in jeans and a sports shirt, stashed two plastic suitcases full of cash into a borrowed Jeep, and drove north on Interstate 400 for some 30 miles. For the last few miles, he picked up an escort-one car carrying two men that drove ahead of him at a distance, another car with one occupant that followed. At an appointed sign, the courier placed both suitcases on the shoulder of the highway. Without waiting to watch the pickup, he turned and drove back to Atlanta...