Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sunset Series show made up for a cancelled gig with Van Morrison in May and was a special trip East for the band. Their stage show highlights their broad talents. Kenny Loggins opens with a short acoustic set. He sang "Danny's Song," and "House at Pooh Corner," the sum total of his previous reputation, to a still-entering crowd. Loggins' voice is equal parts country twang and Elton John, and his performance of these songs was simple, as befit their accompaniment...
...haggling, the abductors agreed. The FBI, which had got wind of the goings-on, then interceded. Undaunted, Don Carlo boldly argued, with some logic, that the Government provide the ransom because he might be accused of gypping the Internal Revenue Service if he came up with such a large sum. The FBI refused, and on May 25, Don Carlo's men tossed the $60,000 into a gully along a New Jersey highway. Manny, however, never materialized...
...little money at all was appearing. But at least one industry--the Polaroid Corporation--was hardly affected by the recession and its president, Edwin H. Land, still had plenty of money on hand. So much so that at Commencement in June 1968. Land gave the University an anonymous lump-sum donation of $12.6 million dollars earmarked specifically for the construction of an Undergraduate Science Center. With the addition of the interest accruing on Land's gift plus another miscellaneous $4 million in contributions, the Science Center was ready to become a reality. In the frenzied elation of the times...
...chair. John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, is directing a fund drive for a chair in Vietnamese Studies, which will presumably be occupied by his protege, Alexander B. Woodside, assistant professor of History. The going price for an endowed chair is $1 million. The income on that sum is primarily used for salaries, which average $24,000 and do not exceed $33,000. Because Fairbank began the drive in 1967, when the cost of a chair was only $600,000, the University has set that amount as the target. The Ford Foundation donated half, and Fairbank has already...
...Salerno. The drivers attached chains to the frail walls and then pulled away. The building simply collapsed. There was some mild protest from the Bishop of Salerno, but, as Journalist Sorrentino acidly recounted, "the land where now you can see a hideous new building was worth, and fetched, a sum to dry any tears...