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...suspicious," Kemp recalls. "No one had ever given me anything in life-why now? But what did I have to lose?" He got a job with an antipoverty project in Harlem and attended school at night. Soon he qualified for a $50-a-week stipend and began attending during the day, taking an accelerated 50 credits a year instead of the usual 30. "I was skeptical about the SEEK program lasting," he says. "I don't believe in white altruism, and I thought it would be just another crumb, a token. At the end of every year there...
...Maharajah of Jaipur, 58, one of India's princely ex-rulers, who until independence in 1947 ranked among the world's richest men; of a heart attack, while playing polo; in Cirencester, England. In return for his throne, the government granted him an income-tax-free stipend of $240,000 a year and, though that was scarcely enough to maintain five palaces and 200 elephants, the Maharajah continued to support the string of polo ponies of which he was so fond...
...some other base than Harvard. . . . The availability of funds from government and the foundations encouraged the trend toward setting monetary equivalent for all the fractions of the faculty member's time-for research as well as for teaching and for administration. The subtle change in the view of the stipend-from a means of enabling the professor to do what he in any case wished to do, to a salary for doing a job-was scarcely noticed. But its ultimate result was to bring him unwittingly into the market place as a seller of his services. That role has begun...
...sole heir, Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach, renounced his rights to a $500 million inheritance. In return, Arndt, for the rest of his life, would receive 2½% of the sales from Krupp's Rossenray coal mine, one of the richest in the Common Market. This year that stipend will amount...
LIKE ALL OTHER welfare programs, WIN is largely a voluntary program (only AFDC fathers--who are few--are required by law to participate). An additional stipend of $30 a month beyond the regular welfare check has been allotted to each client with the hope that it would offer incentive to stay with the program...