Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...schemes of social philanthropy and community investment seem doomed to founder in this dismal fiscal climate. But that is true only if ETOB ("every tub on its own bottom") remains the principal rule of allocation. By failing to assault vigorously the principle of ETOB, the memorandum inevitably stacked the arguments to support the status quo. ETOB really means that the deans and their faculties run roughshod over a relatively powerless administration, helpless to set priorities or to weigh alternative expenditures. Harvard must clearly have a systematic procedure for simultaneously appraising all possible options for raising and spending money...
...Mungo, founder of Liberation News Service, as quoted in Movement...
Died. Jacob Blaustein, 78, founder of the American Oil Co. and former president of the American Jewish Committee; in Baltimore. With his father, Blaustein set up the first drive-in gas station in 1915, devised the first pump with a meter that read in dollars and cents, and introduced the first antiknock fuel (it powered Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis to Europe in 1927). As a Jewish activist, Blaustein played a major role in persuading David Ben-Gurion to accept the U.N. plan to partition Palestine in 1948, and in negotiations with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...
Father Albert McKnight, a black priest from Louisiana and founder of a large and growing federation of poor people's cooperatives in the South, yesterday briefed a group of 20 students at the Business School on the cooperative movement's potential...
Friedan was joined in a panel on women's liberation by Matina Horner, assistant professor of Social Relations, and Diana Gerrity, an editor of Atlantic Monthly and co-founder of Media Women of Boston. The panel was chaired by Antonia Chayes '50, associate professor of Political Science at Tufts...