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...Declaration of Independence. The exhibition features photographs, paintings, documents and artifacts, including a hulking 3,500-Ib. stuffed buffalo-a symbol of the vast, unmapped Western territory that Jefferson bought in the Louisiana Purchase after becoming President. Following trips to Warsaw and London, the show, which is being underwritten by IBM, will come to the U.S. in March...
...wages of even unskilled laborers have jumped from $2 a day to $5. Because most of it has lobe imported from more fertile countries, food is subsidized by the government and is relatively cheap. General home loans are available, and medical care and education through university level are underwritten by the government. With gas selling at a modest 13? a gallon at service stations, it is not surprising that auto imports tripled last year...
...million worth of equipment this year, but it may also supply as much as $1.5 billion a year through 1979. That would be about five times as much as Israel bought in 1967-the year of the Six-Day War-and much of the cost will have to be underwritten by the U.S. Congress. Even with the financial help of American Jews, Israel cannot afford that level of arms purchases...
...collection of such pre-Hispanic gold as survived the ravages of conquistador and tomb robber belongs to Bogotá's Museo del Oro. In an effort to stem the flow of these exquisitely wrought masks, figurines, pectorals and pins out of Colombia and into foreign collections, the museum-underwritten by the national Banco de la República-has preserved some 20,000 pieces, dating from the end of the 1st millennium onward, since it began collecting 35 years ago. Two hundred of these are now on view, through July 28, at the Center for Inter-American Relations...
...reason is that the Afro-American Cultural Center does not have any extensive access to private sources of funds. Many of Hillel's administrative costs are underwritten by the national Hillel organization. There is no corresponding parent organization for the Afro Center. Black foundations do not want to use their scarce resources at Harvard--the wealthiest private university in the world--when there are more immediate uses for that money. And because of Harvard's past history, there are not enough wealthy black alumni to support the center...