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...urging Nixon to boost federal milk price supports in 1971. To back up that charge, the Government relied on testimony by Attorney Jake Jacobsen. When seven charges of fraud against him in a Texas savings and loan scandal were dropped, he had agreed to testify against Connally and to plead guilty to one count of offering a gratuity to a public official...
...people who gathered at Donham's house to plead with the Overseers were still demanding a change in attitudes--a switch from a belief that Cambridge is a part of Harvard to one of Harvard's being a part of Cambridge, as one of the residents put it at the meeting. They want Harvard to own up in advance to what it plans to do in the community so that there would still be time to talk--and no change in personnel can do that. That change has to come from upstairs...
...actually pocketed the $10,000 himself and then pinned a bum rap on Connally. Jacobsen did that, said Williams, "to extricate himself from his troubles" after he had been indicted in an unrelated savings and loan scandal. Indeed, prosecutors dropped seven fraud charges against Jacobsen after he agreed to plead guilty to one count of offering gratuities and said that he would testify against Connally. Earlier, Jacobsen had testified six times to four other investigative bodies that Connally had not taken money from...
...this year's athletic program for lack of money, Graham staged one of the biggest rock concerts since the glory years of Haight-Ashbury. Along with Varsity Stars Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, The Grateful Dead, Neil Young and Santana, even Marlon Brando showed up at Kezar Stadium to plead for contributions. Last week, just before the musicale got under way, however, Bay Area newspapers disclosed that the board of education had suddenly uncovered $2.1 million in extra funds. Graham called the concert his "finest hour," temporarily placed $300,000 in proceeds into a nonprofit corporation bank account, and demanded...
...that while you were making the calls to the various alumni about 100 other departments, research centers and institutes at Harvard may have been dialing the same numbers. Professors still tell stories about Harvard fund-raisers leaving alumni offices only to let in another Harvard fund-raisers to plead his case. As for the Ford Foundation, the days of the big matching grants are over. New tax laws designed to curtail foundation assets have caused organizations like Ford to cut off their grants--not with a slow phase-out but an abrupt yanking...