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...article in the April 20 issue implies that the Great Books Foundation was started by Encyclopaedia Britannica and that there is some connection between the two organizations through Britannica's publication The Great Books of the Western World. The Great Books Foundation was organized as an independent, nonprofit educational corporation in 1947, many years before Britannica's Great Books set was even published. We have no affiliation with Britannica except historically through association with Messrs. Hutchins and Adler, who did the pioneer work in starting Great Books seminars for adults when they were at the University of Chicago...
Most economists agreed that 1962 would turn out well despite its stuttering start; but many were worried about the longer-term prospects. The nonprofit National Planning Association estimated that the gross national product would grow at an annual rate of about 4.2% during the '60s, reach about $800 billion...
Unfortunately, however, National Observer leads often consist merely of the first fact in a chronological recital, and indicate only indirectly what the story is about. In an article about the indictment of former Sister Kenny fund raisers, the first paragraph says, "Since its organization 17 years ago as a nonprofit organization corporation [????] for treatment of polio victims, the Sister Kenny Foundation of Minneapolis has always fared well in fund raising campaigns." Perhaps this is barely permissible in a magazine, but by its own admission, the National Observer is playing newspaper...
Although the first Rossmoor apartments will not be ready until April 1. eager customers (average age: 62; average income: $4,000) have already snapped up 1,319 of them. Meantime. Builder Cortese-who will turn management of Rossmoor over to a nonprofit tenants' association once the apartments are all sold-is eying sites for other Leisure Worlds near San Juan Capistrano, San Francisco. Washington, D.C., Chicago and New York City...
...Pints for One. Most of the 812 blood banks enrolled in AABB are in hospitals, though some are community and private (but nonprofit) ventures. They collect more than 2,000,000 pints, mainly from family and friends of patients, but partly from paid donors who get an average of $15 a pint. Unlike the Red Cross, which exacts no more than pint-for-pint replacement, some hospital banks demand two pints for one. A common compromise is to take two pints for the patient's first transfusion pint, to cover waste and spoilage, and then accept pint for pint...