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...tuition rise this fall was responsible for the increases, Bender pointed out. Although about the same number of freshmen were aided this year as last, the number of upperclass scholarship holders rose from 825 to 890, while the average stipend grew from $720 last year to about $830 this year...
Heckled by creditors, Greece's hard-pressed (at $250,000 a year) King Paul was voted a sympathetic raise to a $383,333 annual stipend. Then, however, he learned that some parliamentary Deputies had opposed the increase. He promptly turned it down, proudly vowed to cut expenses by making "radical changes in palace life...
Coffee Helped. With help from borrowed Belgian experts, and an annual stipend of some $50,000 from Brussels, Bolle and his staff learned how to set up a budget and a social-security system, organize a school system and run a miniature railroad. Usually pinched for funds, Bolle conducted government business largely on a cash basis, selling the wood from his forests to Belgian mines for cash and paying cash in turn for the services of neighboring fire departments when trouble struck. Like all independent border states, Bolle's realm was a hotbed of smuggling, and a seized load...
...autocrat of Hyderabad, could dress in encrusted brocade and im port whole jazz bands from England to play his favorite tunes, Whispering and I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles. As a civil servant now, subservient to the New Delhi government, he has to struggle along on a tax-free stipend of only $1,000,000 and an expense account of half as much, as autocratic democratic head of the state of Hyderabad (pop. 19 million). In tune with the tight times and his penny-pinching ways, he keeps his fleet of Cadillacs and other expensive cars in a garage...
...nearly three years the widow of topflight Gestapoman Reinhardt ("the Hangman") Heydrich (see BOOKS), neatly assassinated by the Czech underground in 1942, has collected a $46-a-month pension from the West German government. Frau Heydrich's stipend is justified on the ground that her husband was killed in enemy action. Last week a provincial court was mulling a government suit that would end her pension...