Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After settling in Los Angeles, where his mother had friends, he divided his days between studying art at Los Angeles City College and working as an office boy for $8 per week, which, together with the small sums his mother earned by baking pastries at home, enabled them to eke out a living. Then one night he happened in on a performance of Martha Graham's modern-dance company. "It had such a tremendous impact on me that it changed my life," he says. An instant convert, he dropped art, began studying with Lester Horton ("a kind of West Coast...
...scenery, the company has had to cope with censorship in Spain, riots in France, and fistfights in several Italian towns. This sort of mishap scarcely fazes an outfit that is run like a permissive kindergarten, calls itself an "Intentional Community" and has learned to move around Europe on a per-person bill for food, drink and cigarettes of less than...
...that has escaped formal devaluation since the end of World War II. The U.S. supplies more than half of the gold in the London pool which was set up in 1961 to help stabilize the price of the metal within a few cents of its official U.S. price: $35 per oz. For 33 years that fixed price has been the cornerstone of the free world's international monetary arrangements. The U.S. is pledged to swap gold for dollars, at that price, to any foreign government that demands it. The dollar's standing as the world's chief...
...million. The terms of this grant will be revised so that the Joint Center can expend it all by 1970 instead of by 1973. This change will raise the rate of expenditure of the Ford money for the next three academic years to $400,000 per year, rather than $200,000 per year. All other grants and contractual research at the Center amount to about...
Ward "Yes" "No" Per-cent in Favor1 768 2465 242 837 1541 353 727 1541 324 1195 1100 525 927 1660 366 1289 1137 537 1540 1037 608 1557 1191 579 883 1946 3110 903 1683 3511 690 2387 22Absentees 33 56 37Total...