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...woke up in a bathtub when his heart shivered. The water had gone ice on him; the last cigarette in the house from before his arm went limp was floating around on top, shedding little brown slivers of tobacco that slid down their individual chutes to the porcelain tub bottom...
...option proposed by the Senior Gift Committee to those who feel they should not give freely to the University, will have minimal impact. Money contributed to the scholarship fund only means that the University will draw less for scholarships from the unrestricted General Fund. Donors are filling the same tub, just from a different side...
Carter's populist tub thumping is also helping to stir up hostility to oil companies. Two days after his nationally televised energy message, with its harsh attack on the oil industry, the President defended his decontrol program before a Democratic fund-raising dinner by saying, "I will not allow this painful but necessary step to become an excuse for a massive rip-off of the American people by American oil companies. They are going to be all over Capitol Hill like a chicken on a June bug. They say they have more influence on Congress than the American people...
...times, Harvard's financial policy of "each tub on its own bottom" seems capricious at best. The Peabody Museum is one of the country's finest storehouses of archaeological and ethnological materials. To see its treasures go to waste because of stubbornly enforced University directives--what one administrator called "financial disregard" for the Peabody in favor of the Fogg Museum--is clearly misguided...
Each branch of the spruce was tied to the trunk. The 11-ft. ball was shaped by hand, contained with burlap, hog wire, a rope girdle and an oaken tub. Mrs. Myers insisted that the work crew, neighbors and reporters stay for lunch. For three days they worked and ate. There were vegetable soup and chicken corn soup, hot dogs and chocolate cake, green salad, and pears and peaches canned by Mrs. Myers. The neighbors came out every day to watch as their old friend the spruce was gussied up to go to the city...