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...grace and favor" cottage behind a ten-foot privet hedge in Windsor Great Park. They shared the hardships of most young married couples on service pay, and it was harder on the wife than the husband. Wing Commander Townsend had only his officer's allowances, plus an extra stipend of ?1,000 for his royal duties, and as a result the pair were far poorer than most of the people they were called on to meet...
...This is the fist time Harvard, Yale and Princeton have sat down together and decided definitely upon an admissions procedure," Henry said. For several years the three schools have met to standardize stipend amounts on scholarships granted in common, but it has been an informal agreement until this year...
...divisions of the Red army. Each day precisely 13 freight trains, 17 barges and 500 automobile trucks loaded with food, fuel and raw materials for West Berlin stomachs and factories are allowed to enter from West Germany. To keep West Berlin alive, the West German government allots a special stipend ($213,857,142 this year...
Once past the barrier, the life of an Immortal is less taxing. It consists largely in collecting an annual stipend of 60,000 francs ($171) and showing up every Thursday in the Académie chamber beneath the great dome of the Institut de France, there to pursue in quiet deliberation tasks ordained by Richelieu 320 years ago. Chief of these tasks is that of "keeping the French language elegant" by constant revision of an official dictionary. It is slow work. The Immortals, though their average age is 73, are in no hurry. The last revised edition of their dictionary...
Reuben A. Brower, Master of Adams, will determine the recipient each year, the award going to a House member at the conclusion of his junior year "on the basis of leadership, character, scholastic achievement and good House citizenry." The stipend will be based on financial need; thus, in some years the award would be purely honorary if the Financial Aid Office so decided. All winners will receive an inscribed book...