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...founded with a grant of $250,000 from Joseph Coors, the Colorado brewing magnate and backer of conservative causes. Today it receives about a third of its $ 10 million annual budget from foundations, many of them begun by ideological sympathizers like Pittsburgh Moneyman Richard Mellon Scaife and Industrialist John Olin. Another third is contributed by business corporations, though Heritage's rigid opposition to Government regulation and protectionism has angered executives of some major corporations that profit from such measures. The final third comes from 130,000 individual donors...
...Says a Western diplomat in Moscow: "I really think Chernenko is there just to keep the political mechanism going until they decide what to do. For the moment, it looks like a collective leadership with everyone very much in charge of his own portfolio." According to Middlebury College President Olin Robison, who has had frequent dealings with high-level Soviet officials, collective leadership in the Politburo has gradually grown more diffuse since Chernenko took office. Says he: "There is no longer any strong personality at the center. The people around Chernenko are stronger than...
...condemn Olin King for using a plastic rod at his boys' school [NATION, June 11]? When properly used, the pipe has the power to deliver a child's soul from hell (Proverbs 23:13,14). Let us condemn the mothers and fathers in this modern American society who show that they hate their children by withholding discipline from them (Proverbs 13: 24) and treat their offspring like bastards (Hebrews...
Henrik Vogler (Erland Josephson) is a renowned stage director, now embarking on a new production of August Strindberg's 1902 fantasia, A Dream Play. In the pivotal role of Indra's Daughter he has cast young Anna Egerman (Lena Olin), who is the daughter of two of Henrik's old acting colleagues. One afternoon, following a rehearsal of the play, the dozing Henrik is awakened by Anna. They sit on an old sofa and chat about their crossed lives and their shared art. The talk drifts to Anna's dead mother Rakel, and in the wink...
...prison but a Dickensian boarding school called the New Bethany Baptist Church Home for Boys. Police raided the place last week. Said Prosecutor Randolph Murdaugh: "I've never seen kids beaten as badly as they were beaten by those allegedly Christian people." School Superintendent Olin King and two employees were charged with child neglect and, for keeping a boy in the cell, kidnaping...