Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administrator, he is widely admired for running one of the most efficient hospitals in the country at a time when hospitals are notorious for bad management. As a fund-raiser, he is considered the best in the state...
Another consideration will be the functional responsibilities of the new President. Will he be a fund-raiser, or primarily involved with the educational process itself? Or will the functions be in some way split between two men, one in a newly created post such as Chancellor...
...President's favorite actor any more. Scott, who voted for Nixon in 1968, has defected. He has joined the Democratic Party's Committee on Congressional Leadership for the Future, promising the group's head, Sargent Shriver, that he will be available as a spsaker and fund raiser for Democratic candidates in this fall's congressional campaigns. The word of Scott's apostasy went around in Washington, and almost immediately, as if to welcome him, Lyndon Johnson sent a request from the Pedernales asking to see a print of Patton. Nixon will have to console himself...
...whose interests range far beyond matters of money. He was an outspoken critic of the Viet Nam War long before dovishness became fashionable in the Wall Street community. Largely because of his antiwar stand, he took a six months' leave of absence in 1968 to become chief fund raiser for Senator Eugene McCarthy's political campaign. Now he is helping to plan John Gardner's drive to form a nonpartisan national citizens' lobby that would act to reshape national policies and priorities. Last week Stein made a quick trip to Northern Ireland to see for himself one of the world...
Latha is a handsome woman of 38, waiting with the guile and patience of Penelope for her fractious true love, a hillbilly hell raiser named Every Dill. Many years before, Every had not only raped and robbed her but rescued her from a mental hospital into which her mean big-city sister had placed her when she was entirely sane. Latha does not lack for more manageable suitors-the town drunk, an amorous farmer, the enraptured child. But she waits, more or less chastely, for Every to return. Eventually he does so, a reformed man turned revival preacher...