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Henry James, Jr., Lamont Librarian, pointed out yesterday that the terms of the endowment which pays for the Farnsworth Room's upkeep specify that the room contain only unassigned, non-course reading, and so any changes in the room will have to meet this requirement...
Since 1956, said Dr. Kline, there has been a drop of 23,000 in the population of state hospitals in 40 states, against a pre-drug estimate of a 60,000 increase over five years. This represents a current saving of $125 million a year on patients' upkeep; counting new building programs now being scrapped, he put the total saving at $1 billion so far. More important than money is the fact that increasing numbers of patients are leaving state hospitals, and have low relapse rates on continuing, outpatient drug treatment...
...even as his kingdom grew, it degenerated. The upkeep was staggering-up to $6.000 a day just to run San Simeon-and a waning public appetite for vulgarity in journalism had turned the Hearst papers into anachronisms, with little experience in what the new reader wanted. In 1937 a team of horrified accountants, assigned to probe Hearst's 94-corporation maze, discovered that The Chief was $126 million in hock. Neither Hearst nor his papers ever recovered from their retrenchment...
...state to raise living standards and increase social welfare. It also warns the state of the danger this power carries to restrict the freedom of the individual. The state must therefore be careful to protect "the right that individual persons possess of being always primarily responsible for their own upkeep and that of their own family, which implies that in the economic systems the free development of productive activities should be permitted and facilitated...
...Boun Oum was at first reluctant-though his main stated objection was that on their earlier stay the Indians had brought an entourage of 400, who took over the best houses in town, refused to bathe in anything but soda water and cost Laos $12,000 a month in upkeep. The allies will also insist that Boun Oum broaden the political base of his government, which at the moment consists chiefly of his own relatives. Probability is that Souvanna would be asked to come back and join the Cabinet...