Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...money for colleges and students enough, said the commission. More federal funds must be provided for counseling potential college students and guiding them toward higher education. The Government must also pay for a talent search among ill-prepared students from second-rate colleges who have the intellect for graduate studies, and subsidize studies to help them qualify...
...trouble is, despite donations and grants, the Annex does not have enough money to operate for the entire year. The students plan to hold a fashion show and put on a play to raise funds, but even if they succeed their school will still be in danger. There is a possibility that Washington will adopt the Annex program for its entire school system. The Strivers would like to see the idea spread, but they know that a large part of the Annex's appeal is that it is voluntary. Massive adoption, they fear, might well kill the spirit that...
...Money to Be Made. Surprisingly, Lasky, 50, turns out to be an amiable, ex-Scripps-Howard correspondent, who describes himself as "a political centrist. I'm a hatchet man with a sense of humor," he laughs, though the humor is nowhere apparent in his book. In the foreword to RFK, Lasky claims to describe his subject "as he actually was," but privately he now admits: "I never really knew him. This was a tentative appraisal from one side. I don't tell the whole story. I'm trying to tell 'the opposite side.' That...
...There is money to be made attacking Kennedys, and Lasky knows it. "Go ahead. Get me," he recently goaded a reporter. "Hostile reviews sell books." Although JFK got mostly bad reviews in 1963, it sold, says Lasky, "about a quarter of a million hardbound copies. At $1.20 a copy, you figure...
...wants to buy 1,000 shares of a $1 stock. On the other hand, if he's got $800 for a blue-chip stock, I'd take that business." Since brokers often act as if they are doing him a favor by accepting his money, the odd-lotter frequently feels like odd man out. "I've only got $2,500 to play with," says Hollywood Electrician Richard Johnson. "I know that's not much. But I've had to change brokers three times in the past year, and each time...