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...added that what he called the "master's discretionary fund for entertaining" should be used for "students who wish to do something or other" and "is routinely used to pick up the tab for events like House plays...
...Rocky Raccoon's, a Washington restaurant featuring country music, and afterward made plans to meet again. No matter that Athlete Evert, 21, earned $362,227 last year, and that her escort has been unemployed since he graduated from Utah State University last May. Gentleman Jack picked up the tab...
...questions they put to her, even when they repeated them several times. When they brought up her recent past, she was reduced "to tears and extreme emotional turmoil." They asked that she be removed from her cell in the San Mateo County jail to a private hospital (with the tab for her room and the necessary guards to be picked up by her father, Publisher Randolph Hearst...
...Sacramento area, but decided that there was no need to put a special watch on her. From what it knew of Fromme's statements, the agency did not feel that she posed a dangerous threat to the President. Ideally, the Secret Service should be able to keep tab on every suspect. But Douglas V. Duncan, head of the Secret Service unit in Sacramento, points out, "We don't have enough agents for that kind of thing...
Long before the plate-tectonics theory was conceived, scientists were aware that rocks fracture only under extreme stress. As early as 1910, Johns Hopkins Geologist Harry Reid suggested that it should be possible to tell when and where quakes were likely to occur by keeping close tab on the buildup of stresses along a fault. But the knowledge, instruments and funds necessary to monitor many miles of fault line and interpret any findings simply did not exist. Earthquake prediction did not draw much attention until 1949, when a devastating quake struck the Garm region of Siberia, causing an avalanche that...