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There seem to be two main issues involved: money ($130,000 plus a house is unheard of for a Facultysupported student activity) and the racial emphasis of the center. The Faculty currently does not give money to any organization of ethnic groups...
...plan for the department called for "consultation" with students on issues concerning tenure and curriculum, but gave students no real power. The Afro proposal, on the other hand, offered a scheme in which students would be represented on the new department's executive committee proportionate to Faculty representation--something unheard of at Harvard at that time...
...introducing kidnap-insurance policies, and Lloyd's obliged them. The maximum protection Lloyd's offered an adult at that time was $100,000; the maximum for a child was the sum paid for the Lindbergh baby, recovered dead: $50,000. Thus kidnap insurance was not "all but unheard of a few years...
...hoodlums even in the U.S. has been starkly dramatized recently by the abductions of Publishing Heiress Patricia Hearst in California and Newspaper Editor John ("Reg") Murphy in Atlanta. As a result, more and more companies are being spurred into buying a form of insurance policy that was all but unheard of a few years ago, and even today is hardly ever discussed openly: ransom insurance for executives...
...unreleased film, which stars Robert Redford as the brooding Gatsby and Mia Farrow as Daisy, his lost love, has generated enough audience anticipation to have already earned an unheard-of $18.6 million in advance bookings-nearly three times its $6.4 million cost. Since the industry rule of thumb is that a movie must bring in 2½ times its cost to break even, Gatsby, if not yet quite a Triple Crown winner, is already in the black. And since the film will open almost simultaneously in 370 theaters round the country, Yablans can say that even if the film itself...