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...talent, they often recruit unknowns and has-beens. When Don Tolle of Atlanta started his Noble Vision country-music label in 1979, he had no artists. He tracked down Jim Glaser, a once successful singer who had grown fat and unhappy playing in motel bars. After finding a financial backer, Hal Oven, they recorded an old song of Glaser's and turned it into a hit by making phone calls to 1,100 radio stations. That led to an album, The Man in the Mirror, which has stayed on the country charts for 67 weeks, a smash by any measure...
...most immediate effect on UNESCO will be financial: the U.S. contributes 25% of the group's $374 million biennial program budget. That will leave the Soviet Union, which contributes 12% of the budget, as the group's largest backer. Said Ambassador Gerard: "Since some of UNESCO'S most objectionable programs resemble the Soviets' policies, let them pay for them...
Heritage was founded with a grant of $250,000 from Joseph Coors, the Colorado brewing magnate and backer of conservative causes. Today it receives about a third of its $ 10 million annual budget from foundations, many of them begun by ideological sympathizers like Pittsburgh Moneyman Richard Mellon Scaife and Industrialist John Olin. Another third is contributed by business corporations, though Heritage's rigid opposition to Government regulation and protectionism has angered executives of some major corporations that profit from such measures. The final third comes from 130,000 individual donors...
Independence itself was won in part through the work of Motilal Nehru, an early and active backer of the concept. He begat Jawaharlal, who served for 17 years as the first Prime Minister of independent India. Jawaharlal begat Indira, who ruled for 16 of the 20 years of the post-Nehru era and, through her marriage, became the namesake, though not a relation, of the country's spiritual conscience, Mahatma Gandhi. Indira, known to many in the nation as Amma (mother), begat Rajiv and then Sanjay. When the prodigal younger son and heir apparent died in a plane crash...
...BEEN an almost Diogenesian task of late to find a Reagan backer on campus who can rationalize support for the President with arguments that: (1) do not smugly dismiss Walter F. Mondale as a "wimp"; (2) are more sophisticated than "I want a job;" and (3) do not include the words "optimism," "patriotism," "Olympics," "standing tall," or--and this is the killer--"What difference does it make...