Word: summing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the art market orbiting at ever higher prices, heading a small museum gets increasingly frustrating. The Denver Art Museum, for instance, has only $16,000 a year to spend on new acquisitions -a sum that would not even begin to buy a top De Kooning or an Andrew Wyeth, let alone an old master. Yet last week Denver was the proud possessor of a Rembrandt (see color), proving that all is not lost in the little league...
...same time, Trottenberg attacked as "utterly meaningless" a Winthrop House proposal that the University consider combining room, board and tuition charges into one sum which could not be raised more than once every four years...
...Committee also urged that the HCUA also consider a policy "of billing students for room, board, and tuition in one lump sum," and that "the grand total not be raised more than once every four years...
...presidential foreign aid requests. Last week, President Kennedy asked Congress to appropriate $4.9 billion for foreign aid in fiscal 1963, the biggest aid request since Dwight Eisenhower's $5.1 billion whopper in 1953. Noting that it is "always open season" on foreign aid, Kennedy insisted that the sum was "vital to the interests of the U.S." and "cannot, I believe, be further reduced." But after such customary formalities, the President made a spirited challenge aimed at softening the blows of the waiting ax, even if it cannot stay them...
Thus, in Election Year 1962, the sum of the Republican parts appears better than the whole, at least as viewed from outside Washington. To be sure, the party has so far failed to codify its case against the Democratic Administration...