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...Roman Catholic religious orders and charities from many parts of the world. Set up by Pope Pius XII 27 years ago, the institute manages a sizable portion of the Holy See's vast securities portfolio. Its guiding principle is the maxim that 1,000 lire sown today can reap 10,000 for charity tomorrow...
...occupies, and the fund will add a landlord's profits to those already generated by 33 other properties in eleven states and Puerto Rico. Though still small as mutual funds go, the fund is currently growing at a $5,000,000-a-month pace. It is able to reap a tidy income from large holdings because they are mostly financed by borrowed mortgage money. As a consequence, the value of each share has climbed 20% since the fund's birth in January 1967-a performance creditable enough to stir the interest of some well-established U.S. investment funds...
Whatever praise OEO receives, its defeats-admittedly not infrequent-reap salvos of abuse. Stung by growing senatorial criticism, the agency last week issued an upbeat report claiming that nearly 3,000,000 Americans-1,000,000 of them nonwhite-climbed out of poverty in 1967. In the War on Poverty's first three years, said the report, "1,700,000 whites and more than 700,000 nonwhites a year crossed the threshold compared with an average of 840,000 whites and 80,000 nonwhites each year in 1959-64." The statistics, while impressive, may prove porous armor...
...current Miss America, Kansas' Debra Dene Barnes, will pick up $100,000 this year for presiding at the opening of a Pepsi-Cola bottling plant or perching on the fender of a new Oldsmobile. Through similar promotions, the 49 other state finalists in the Miss America contest will reap about $20,000 each...
...bluebooks issue, or non-issue, has been kicking around for the better part of the academic year. It started with a HPC resolution last fall that students be allowed to reap the educational benefits of reading over their old exams by picking them up if they wanted. Ford explained a month or two later that he could find no rule against...