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...series of five-year plans to raise donations from graduate editors to repay the loan is being planned. Samuel H. Ordway '21, chairman of the magazine's board of trustees, discussed the Advocate's financial difficulties at the yesterday's ground-breaking ceremony...
...Ph.D. thesis at Yale in 1933, it was far from accepted doctrine. Bankers sat on their funds, lent only on the highest-grade collateral. Meredith began developing the idea that, instead of looking mainly to collateral, the loanmakers should consider a man's job and his ability to repay. A mortgage, he argued, is not just a lien on property, but "instead is a means of raising the standard of living...
...carnival near Rome, however, their ways are interrupted by a clown who ridicules the brute constantly. While the strong man is in jail for an attempt to repay his tormenter with a knife, the clown tries to persuade the girl to leave her gorilla. Her refusal brings a philosophic reversal of his argument: he shows her that she is necessary to her owner and is fulfilling as important a place in the scheme of things as anyone else. The thought delights the girl, and she rejoins her man. But after a subsequent chance meeting in which the brute beats...
...visit was a surprise to Tito, and from the way he and his comrades acted, an embarrassing surprise. On his visit to the Soviet Union last June, Tito casually invited Khrushchev to repay the visit at some future, unspecified date. Far sooner than Tito & Co. expected, Khrushchev suddenly accepted, and one day last week landed at Zemun airport, to be greeted by Tito and a few retainers. Newsmen were barred, and were left only to wonder at the timing and the intent of Khrushchev's arrival...
...first, when his grandiose Marius Amid the Ruins of Carthage caught Napoleon's eye. "Give the medal to that!" the Emperor ordered; overnight the American became a cynosure at the French court. When Aaron Burr came penniless to France after his trial for treason, Vanderlyn was able to repay Burr's former generosity in full, supporting his patron as he himself had been supported...