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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Kresge Foundation of Detroit has granted $250,000 to the School of Public Health, Stanley S. Kresge, president of the Foundation, and President Pusey announced jointly yesterday. The grant will provide funds for the construction of a $2.5 million dollar building for research on environmental health problems...
...lure? Though doctors shy away from admitting it, the answer is speedy service at supermarket savings. Small, painstaking laboratories charge about $25 for a single rabbit test for pregnancy; contract labs offer an unlimited number of tests for a monthly fee which can work out to less than a dollar a test...
Cement & Thatches. Kaiser started in a small way-for him. He bought $3,000,000 worth of land bordering on Waikiki, created his own beach and artificial lagoon, and started work on his Hawaiian Village Hotel. In short order, he built 70 thatch-roofed units, a million-dollar 100-room hotel, a 1,000-seat convention hall, a 14-story, 260-room Ocean Tower, an aluminum dome for the convention over flow, and a $1.5 million, 13-story hotel. Now being finished are a pair of $5 million, 17-story hotels called the Diamond Head Towers, which will give...
...Academicians rarely believe that doing a topflight job on a less prestigious level is sufficiently rewarding. All of the schools want to rise higher. Junior colleges want to be four-year colleges. State colleges want to be universities. Since all must battle for a dwindling share of the tax dollar, competition can be vicious. And with so many separate claimants, state legislators come to think with their scissors, and budgets end in ribbons...
ZECKENDORF EMPIRE has been cut back by $90 million. Bill Zeckendorf, president of Webb & Knapp, big U.S. real estate firm, sold off that much property this year to get cash to rescue beleaguered Freedomland and to help finance multimillion-dollar developments in Los Angeles and Montreal...