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...richest schools got richer-47.1% of the year's gifts went to 65 major private universities. Yale, leading with $23,465,347, could stack its gifts slightly higher than Harvard, with $22,558,855. Among state universities, California was by far the best money magnet, with $15,366,679; the University of Michigan got $7,612,890. Leaders in other categories: ¶Private men's colleges, the University of the South. $1,883,598. ¶Private women's colleges. Bryn Mawr, $2,863,716. ¶Private coed colleges, Brandeis. $4,271,713. ¶Private professional or technical...
...Symington to Armed Services. Cautioned Dick Russell: "You are dealing with the most sensitive thing in the Senate-seniority." But Russell was not quite right: the most sensitive thing in the Senate was Lyndon Johnson, and his instinct told him to go ahead. Says he: "I pushed in my stack." Not only did Johnson somehow make senior Democrats feel like statesmen in giving up their preferment, but he won the lasting gratitude of the younger Senators.* Says Mike Mansfield, now the assistant Democratic leader: "He gave us a chance to blossom...
...panic, Tsubame passed the hat and raised $20,000 to send Mayor Ko Tamaki to Washington with nine other delegates to see the President. (It also stopped building the road after 50 yards.) They brought along petitions signed by 14,000 townspeople and a stack of pleading letters written by schoolchildren in halting English. ("Mayor Tamaki as well as the folks in the town of Tsubame is now in a fix with your plan to raise the duty.") The President did not see the delegation, but it did get in to visit third-echelon officials...
...pocketful of seed for the birds about his place, he works by himself from 8:30 each morning to 10 at night in a spacious stone library, takes time out only to do a little painting, putter about the grounds, play on his electric organ, or chop a stack of firewood. But out of this solitude has come a philosophy that offers a hopeful vision of the unity of the universe...
...reputations suffer with each new breakdown or complaint. Repairs is one of their major problems, and they are the ones who are working hardest to solve it. Says Judson Sayre, president of the Norge Division of Borg-Warner Corp., waving a letter from a Cleveland housewife: "Look at this stack of repair bills she enclosed. I don't blame that woman one bit. She's unhappy. I'd be unhappy too. It's a failure in leadership, not the fault of underlings. The guy who licks the service problem is going to wind...