Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing to wear a button that says WE TRY HARDER; it's another to prove it. When Board Chairman Robert C. Townsend of Avis Rent-A-Car turned up at his office in Garden City, N.Y., one day wearing his company blazer-the kind worn by Avis folks who deal with the public-a bunch of his subordinates started trying harder. They began wearing their own Avis blazers, red or blue, to the office. Soon supervisory personnel in Avis stations all over the world were wearing them. Last week a group of 16 of them posed happily for their...
...Suites, a piece that, until a few years ago, the orchestra could barely manage, owing to a marked deficiency in the brass and woodwinds sections. The short-windedness has since been cured by luring foreign talent-for example, Trombonist Ray Parnes from the Pittsburgh Symphony-with guarantees of rent-free $30,000 homes. Now, says Mehta, "the Israel Philharmonic stands up with the best in Europe, and in the strings it is superior to most orchestras in the U.S. It has virtuosity and temperament...
...beat clothing stores, book stores, art supply stores, and offices for student organizations presently cramped in tiny quarters in a University building on Dunster Street. Even groups like the Advocate who presently own their own quarters but have difficulty in keeping them up, might be interested in low-rent offices on the Library site...
...ultimately, the Library's greatest impact may prove to be on the daily life of Harvard Square. Though this plan have not yet been made public, architect I.M. Pei has said that he is considering placing University buildings, low-rent offices for student organizations, and stores run any local merchants on the site...
Harvard's room rent goes up $40, amid promises that it will not rise again for at least two years. President Johnson asks Congress to phase out the National Defense Education Act, under which 700 Harvard students are receiving loans. Harvard asks the Office of Economic Opportunity for money to help poor but smart Cambridge high school students. The Harvard Student Agencies begins a $150,000 fund drive, and the Divinity School a $6.8 million...