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President James Madison asked Congress for $50,000 to help Venezuelan earthquake victims, and U.S. aid to allies in distress has been consistent ever since. Tripp's main problem, predictably, is coping with "bureaucratic bog-down": he often negotiates personally with medical-supply stores to rent iron lungs, and last July he turned Sears, Roebuck & Co. into an Omar the Tentmaker to provide $1,800,000 worth of "Ted Williams Campers" for 100,000 Jordanians displaced by the Arab-Israeli war. Tripp is an avid outdoorsman and thus an aficionado of tent living by avocation...
Students who live in the Houses are subsidizing those who live off-campus by paying all the House expenses in their room rent," Gill said...
...grandfather started the business in 1898 by building and owning tenements in Lower Manhattan. Since Bob, 51, took command of the firm in 1962, he has sold all but two of the 21 rental-housing projects that the company built following World War II, including all its holdings in rent-controlled New York City. The emphasis now is on a different kind of operation. Today the company operates 23 large office buildings, mostly in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Cleveland; it owns more office space (5,775,000 sq. ft.) than the total available in Denver, Atlanta or Kansas...
...Dwight Eisenhower batted 46%, John F. Kennedy only 39%.) But in 1967, Johnson was defeated on his tax-surcharge, civil rights, anticrime, East-West trade and legislative-reorganization bills. Foreign aid was cut by a record $1 billion, poverty funds by $300 million, model cities by $350 million. The rent-supplements program was practically shrunk out of existence from $40 million to $10 million. Despite Congress' fractious mood, however, Johnson did get a number of other bills past Capitol Hill's axmen, most notably: expanded air-pollution control, a consular treaty with Moscow, an outer-space treaty, the first meat...
...This commercial is emotional. People are going to feel it. It tries to project an attitude that Hertz works harder," explained James Durfee, president of Carl Ally, Inc., the advertising agency that devised it to help Hertz rent cars. Said Hertz Vice President Gerald Shapiro, a former advertising man who now heads the rent-a-car division: "We like to explore new and unknown areas." Buried. Last week Hertz high brass pondered whether it had explored the wrong area and decided to bury the leather-coated efficiency expert for good. "This is not the first time, I am sure, that...