Word: returns
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...lawmakers of an infirm Third Republic in 1886 were more than usually jittery about the future of popular rule in France. The tubby nephew of Emperor Napoléeon I was spending many an evening plastering Paris with posters denouncing the republican government and advocating a prompt return to empire. At his Rue de Varenne mansion the grandson of King Louis Philippe was holding miniature courts and receiving ambassadors from abroad, for all the world as though the Bourbons still reigned. To stem the monarchist tide, France's legislature passed a law ordering from France's soil forever...
Underground Prince. On Paris streets, wispy old women still peddled literature advocating a return to Bourbon rule, but the royalist cause has been as good as dead for years. By tacit consent of the government itself, 36-year-old Prince Louis Napoleéon, the Bonapartist pretender, had been calmly ignoring the Law of Exile ever since World War II. A well-heeled young businessman, Prince Louis Napoléeon was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor for his leadership in the French underground during the war. Since then he has spent a good part of every year...
When alumni and friends of New York University bought a macaroni factory in 1947 and dedicated the profits to N.Y.U., they were following a path already partly blazed by others. In a search for bigger & better returns on endowment money, some U.S. colleges and universities have been buying into all sorts of enterprises, from real estate to department stores, thus giving income from the properties their own exemption from corporation income taxes. If New York University's new macaroni factory could thus become tax exempt, its macaroni would go to market with a tidy advantage over most...
...rehabilitation at U.C.L.A. and plans to use his training in rural New Mexico; Van Sizar Allen, 24, a Mississippi Negro who will start graduate biology studies at Woods Hole, Mass, this summer; Peter Tali Coleman, 30, a Samoan who plans to take a law degree at Georgetown University, then return to Samoa as a lawyer; and Edward P. Dozier, 34, a Pueblo Indian who will try for a doctorate in anthropology at the University of California. Jock Whitney seemed as pleased as any of the winners. He had already earmarked another $100,000 for next year's Opportunity Fellowships...
...Return Mail. The Edgar Guest of Victorian England, Tupper could produce verse for any occasion, and with facility that was the wonder of his time. He was tipped out of a carriage once, and promptly turned out a verse on the moral lessons to be learned in carriage accidents ("0 trials and troubles and losses in life!/ What are ye but simples to strengthen my soul?"). Asked to compose an eclogue to be recited by the Queen's daughters at her birthday party, Tupper sent the lines by return mail. His practice of sending poems to the newspapers...