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Special Account. The report contains some fascinating details about Rebozo's role as a part-time political fund raiser. In February 1969, according to a White House memorandum, Nixon asked Rebozo to solicit Billionaire J. Paul Getty in London for "major" campaign contributions-only a few months after he had completed his victorious campaign for the presidency. Getty subsequently contributed $125,000 to the 1972 Republican campaign. In early 1969, Rebozo established a special account in his Key Biscayne bank to pay for what he described as "Administration-connected costs"; this was the account from which the "earring" funds...
...dismal year for the economy, the Nixon Administration is still groping for a way to break the grim combination of stagnant production, roaring inflation, strangling interest rates and slumping financial markets. Last week the President met at the White House with 25 top businessmen and non-Government economists to solicit their views...
...million drive will solicit funds from Harvard alumni for the renovation of existing athletic facilities and for new construction, including an athletic complex on Observatory Hill to serve the Quadrangle Houses...
About 50 members of the Class of 1969 passed a resolution at the Class's fifth reunion Saturday calling on its officers to solicit class donations for the DuBois Institute, the Afro-American Cultural Center, unionization at Harvard and the admission and hiring of women...
...result of polio, he resolutely hiked and climbed until he had built up his limbs-and a lifelong commitment to the environment. His first teen-age encounter with the law made a lasting impression too; Orville (as he was then unhappily known) was hired by a local bluenose to solicit offers from prostitutes so he could turn them in to the police. He wound up sympathizing with the ladies, and detesting the minions of the law. In later years, Douglas became a fervent supporter of the Warren Court decisions limiting police powers and protecting individual privacy...