Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Golden Touch. The first step in mastering grantsmanship is picking a field that the grant givers consider hot. "I've developed the golden touch," admits a former Justice Department consultant now on the University of Mississippi faculty. "I can get $100,000 with half an hour on the phone to Washington-I can get rich fighting poverty." Studies of water and air pollution are also big this year, as is any application of computers to human affairs (at Stanford alone there are seven major projects in computer-assisted teaching). There is always plenty of money available from almost...
...some professors, the pursuit of project money is almost a full-time career in itself. "There is a kind of hustle here, like in the business world," contends John Hodges, a British-born Harvard graduate student in the history of science, "and sometimes intellectual contemplation is fitted in between phone calls to Washington." Harvard Graduate Student Steve Barney claims that grants are used "as a bonus for the faculty-like an expense account in business," cites travel grants to libraries, despite the availability of microfilmed copies...
...rights-minded veterans of a summer in Mississippi. The two, former CRIMSON editors Ellen Lake '66 and Peter Cummings '66, envisioned a network of five state-wide weekly newspapers in five Deep South states. But that would have taken $75,000 to get going, and months of letter-writing, phone calls, and collections around Harvard produced only $35,000. They picked Alabama, where civil rights groups were planning massive voter registration campaigns to unseat Gov. George Wallace...
...involved was dispensed mainly in dribs and drabs: $9.18 to pay for a recruited athlete's motel room, $2.11 for another to make an emergency phone call. Some of the money was budgeted for Illinois scouts' traveling expenses. One football player received a total of $300 to cover his wife's medical expenses. Most got nothing at all, and the rest averaged less than $15 per month, which is a permissible amount under N.C.A.A. rules but not under the Big Ten's. Ironically, meticulous records were kept of all disbursements, so that Elliott, Combes and Braun...
...bull on just about everything." The story is not uncommon. Monro has opened up his office to many students, especially in his last years. In fact, at times the conversation drags on and he unrealistically assumes the attention of his listeners. Some people listening to Monro on the phone, have been able to put down the receiver and engage in another conversation for a few moments without Monro noticing...