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Furthermore, Brewster said, the corporation would not favor admitting women if it meant reducing the number of men in Yale College, and insisted that the addition of women would have to be underwritten by "sufficient funds to maintain the quality of the university...
...President had Secretary of State Dean Rusk hold a news briefing to reiterate what Johnson himself had explained many times before. The U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, said Rusk, "is an obligation under the 1954 agreements, under the 1962 accords on Laos, and under general international law." It was underwritten last year by a joint resolution of Congress, passed by a 502-2 vote (the holdouts: Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse and Alaska's Democratic Senator Ernest Gruening) authorizing the President to take "whatever measures necessary" to protect the sovereignty of South Viet...
...admirer of Rhodes, Rowland makes it clear to Africa's sensitive new leaders that he craves only a business empire. "I'm not at all interested in politics," he says, "only in doing business." He has associated himself with Black Africa's economic aspirations, underwritten nationalistic-development schemes. During Malawi's independence celebrations last July, Rowland smiled tolerantly from his dignitary's seat while Prime Minister H. Kamuzu Banda roared that "all businessmen are crooks." Rowland could afford to smile. Malawi is dependent on railway and lake transportation systems that are controlled by Lonrho...
...Service Corps' costs at the start are being underwritten by the Agency for International Development; after hat, they will be subsidized by U.S.companies. As a catalyzer, 52 executives have been named to the corps' board, and Chase Manhattan's David Rockefeller-one of the original proponents of the idea-has been elected chairman to succeed the late C. D. Jack-on of Time Inc. Along with money, U.S. corporations hopefully will also offer talent. The Service Corps has already received 3,000 inquiries about its program, sifted out 700 as particularly promising. It is now trying...
...almost ruined. Repeatedly, Scranton was given a sly wink, told what a cagey fellow he was to pretend that he didn't really want the 1964 G.O.P, presidential nomination, and assured that his political strategy was just right. One acquaintance let it be known that he had already underwritten $25,000 in Scranton-for-President campaign contributions...