Word: payments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...universities with $127.5 million in matching grants aimed at prodding their friends to kick in even more. Last week the Ford family of fine universities rose by two with the addition of Brandeis ($6,500,000)* and Southern California ($6,000,000).- Each school gets an immediate Ford payment. To get the rest, each must in three years raise $3 for $1 of Ford cash...
Some families are forced to buy Christ mas on time; the ghost of Christmas past comes to the party for Christmas present in the form of another monthly payment at the bank. An added budgetary irritant is that Christmas money is nearly always spent for something not really needed. The necessities have already been bought since it would plainly be churlish not to buy cold the new weather, fur the coat new with party the dress in advent of time for the party on, say, Dec. 21. Christmas costs also trigger the seasonal crook. An article titled "Christmas Reactions...
With Red China trumpeting the alleged withdrawal of its invading armies, a deadly apathy settled over India last week. The government desperately needed gold to pay for war purchases, but few patriots were willing to turn in their hoards, even on the attractive official terms for payment. Civil defense measures were a joke, slit trenches being dug in New Delhi were both too shallow and too narrow, and a scandal boiled up over the substandard cement used in air raid shelters. So hard up was the government for arms that it asked India's maharajahs to turn over their...
...later when Debussy left Rosalie to marry wealthy Emma Bardac, mother of one of his pupils. Rosalie fired two bullets into herself, recovered and disappeared from Debussy's life. So did most of Debussy's friends. To Debussy, the scandal seemed in some mystic way to be payment for "some forgotten debt to life." In the years after 1904, Debussy was more comfortable financially, but both the quality and quantity of his music faded...
...California's First Western Bank & Trust. Of the six, a little-known Texas insurance man named Troy Victor Post, 56, showed a clear and present advantage. Said a Bancorporation director: "Post's offer had something unique about it-money." Where most of the bidders offered complicated deferred-payment deals. Post unpocketed $69.5 million in ready cash. He quickly got First Western, which has assets of $612 million...