Tidbits and Outrages
Tidbits and-Outrages Why the Lord Should Be Your Lifeboat There is a ferry that crosses the mouth of Delaware Bay covering the 30 miles between lower Delaware and Cape May, New Jersey. Its...
...But when MI...
...Between $10,000 and $20,000...
...Here it is, as reported by Nancy Collins in The Washington Post...
...First-class travel is virtually the rule at the World Bank, which administers a $40 billion loan program for the impoverished countries of the world...
...Plans for the building, which is the first naval hospital to bear the name of any person and the first built since World War I1 that did not replace an old hospital, were well under way when Mr...
...flies the Concorde.’ ” Give Up on Balancing that Budget, Jimmy From the San Jose (Calif...
...But a Senate investigator who has examined bank practices terms tks rationale ‘as phony as it can be.’ He says: ‘NO one else in the Government...
...I wasn’t in on the planning...
...F. C. Gregg, the hospital’s commanding officer...
...The assumptin as the admission office is that the college is a community with need that cannot be meet if membership is granted solely on grounds of academic performance...
...Asst...
...What do you think a job like that would pay...
...there is little cross-service coordination,’ the summary said...
...That, it turns out, is part of the problem...
...Mercury News comes this tribute to the fiscal ingenuity of the local city fathers: “San Jose unveiled an haginative plan for paying off $1 1.8 million in federal mortgages on downtown redevelopment areas Friday: using federal funds to make the payments...
...Vincent Astor, Mr...
...John Winthrop Aldrich, Mrs...
...The health of the commmunity is assumed to require a human diversity which cannot be obtained if abilioty ti obtain high grades is the only requirement for membership" Dut of the Wallets of Babes...
...There are 36 wholesale supply depots run by DOD at an annual operating cost of $1.3 billion,’ the paper said...
...Since it opened six months ago, it has never had more than 50...
...The bank also frequently pays travel costs for officials’ wives...
...Jerry Brown Barbara Howar, new York Times assistant metropolitan editor Warren Hoge, Mariella Agnelli, katharine Graham, publisher of The Washington Post and mother of the hostess, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, Random House chief and Vidal publisher Jason Epstein and wife, Babara, David and Linda Obst, Shana Alexander, and others...
...Everybody asks me how this happened,’ said Capt...
...Prepares and organizes meetings sponsored by the bank such as those of the Board of Governors and its committees...
...The dinner party honoring British publisher George Weindenfeld, included CBS board chairman Bill Paley, Jacqueline Onassis, Pete Hamill writer Susan Sontag, Lillian Hellman, Atlantic Records mogul Ahmet Ehrtegun, Evangeline Bruce, Hollywood agent Sue Mengers...
...When you reach the boats, you fmd that there are two of them, each seating 25 people...
...One explanation for the excess hospitals came in this report by the Associated Press from New Orleans: “The new $21 million F. Edward Hebert Naval Hospital, with a capacity of 250 beds, had 20 patients this week...
...There is much evidence that these functions are more expensive and less effective than they might be,’ the White House paper said...
...The ferry displays a certificate of seaworthiness from the United States Coast Guard...
...If the campus has become dense with bookish drones, the admissions people may sense a need to take on a leavening detachment of no- too-bookish hell- raisers, and if the student body is heavily populated with Eastern city youths the college may choose to take an infusion of youngster from Midwestern farms...
...Its capacity is 700 people...
...The bank defends the Concorde’s use, saying the reduced fight time means fewer man hours spent in flight and therefore saves money...
...She's the one who in the introduction to her book about life in 1876 gave generous thanks to Mr...
...It makes a little boiling of the blood when asn applicant with straight...
...In response to a question about the contributions of $1,000 each by his three children-aged 10, 11 and 12-to Senator Sasser’s campaign, Merritt said the contributions were the childrens’ own idea...
...Originally, the hospital was part of a plan to move some Navy operations to New Orleans...
...Her indifference to the beautiful people found expression again in her guest list...
...The balance of the money will come from the federal Community Development Block Grant program and redevelopment funds already on hand, “Campbell had no explanation for why the federal government has to take money from one pocket and put it into another to pay off the mortgages, instead of just canceling them .” more tidbits and outrages Waging the Peace According to Gene Famigletti of Air Force Times, a White House memorandum recently pointed out that the DOD “spends about $36 billion-30 to 35 percent of its budget-on support services, including supply and maintenance, health care, training and base operations...
...Spouses often accompany officials at government expense for ‘public relations’ purposes, solely to attend social activities...
...But I assume the planners thought things were going to happen and they didn’t.’ “The hospital is named for the Louisiana congressman who was chairman of the House Armed Services Committee for years before he was ousted from the post in January 1975...
...The San Antonio, San Diego and San Francisco areas each have two military hospitals,’ it said...
...Generous salaries are only part of the appeal of working at such international organizations as the Inter-American Bank and the World Bank...
...Housing and Urban Development Department to help pay off the mortgages...
...All over the ferry there are arrows pointing upward saying “Lifeboats this way...
...Most bank officials flying to London on official business choose the most costly commercial transportation available, the Concorde, which costs $1,683 round trip as against the $678 coach fare on a regular jet...
...There is also first class air travel...
...More than 7,800 trips in the last year have cost the bank more than $12 million...
...The Armies of the Night You remneber Lally Weymouth...
...Atletes, Musicians and Other Subverters of Merit Russel Baker has written one of his rare un funny columns on the Bakke case and it is the best thing we have read on the subject...
...Here’s a report from UPI: “Officials of the World Bank, which receives much of its financing from the United States, took nearly 600 trips this year on the costly airplane, Concorde...
...Hebert lost his position as chairman of the Armed Services Committee, the plan to shift naval operations here lost its impetus...
...Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner, Esquire editor Clay Felker with author Gail Sheehy, British Ambassador Peter Jay, Gay Talese, Barbara Walters, William and Rose Styron, millionaire businessman max Palevsky, New York magazine editor Joe Armstrong, California Gov...
...Processes special votings . . . handles the appointments, resignations, and other mutters related to the Governors of the Bank...
...or Mrs...
...In casse you missed it, here it began, "Even the fanciest colleges employ some sort of quota system when deciding who shall be admitted and who turned away...
...Redevelopment Director Russ Campbell said . . . that the city has applied for a $4,586,000 grant from the U.S...
...Each of these depots has excess storage capacity and many are located in the same geographic region, e.g., six in the San Francisco Bay area, four in eastern Pennsylvania and two in Tidewater Virginia.’ “ ‘Fifty percent of military hospitals are within 50 miles of another military hospital...
...You’ve Got a Very Fortunate Friend at the World Bank “Assistant Secretary-Con ference Service Sector...
...Gilbert Merritt, a nominee for a judgeship on the Circuit Court of Appeals sponsored by Senator Jim Sasser of Tennessee, recently went through confimiation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee...
...The World Bank spent $603,000 last year on trips for 203 spouses, explaining this improved morale...
...Paul Mellon , and then to a score of plain old people who didn't rate a Mr...
...Recently Weymounth was the hostess at the party where Norman Mailer attacked Gore Vidal...
...If the band's tuba player has just been graduated, the admissions office will be sensiotive to the need for a replacement...
...Hebert lost his post...
...John Holusha of The Washington Star reports that, if you work at the Inter-American Bank, the answer is $69,680...
...no matter how imDortant their mission...
...as in high school is passed over for a promising fullback who will obviously have to settle for the gentleman's C. At least nobody has yet gone to law claiming he has been descriminate against because a college for which he was academically qualified rejected him in a favor of a football player with lower grades...
...The children were well aware of political campaigning and very well aware of the need for campaign contributions, and were very well aware at that time of the need for such contributions by Senator Sasser...
...In the Washington, D.C., area there are four military hospitals...
...The admissions office usually recognizes for example, that the coloege needs some heavily muscled young men who can play football and a few extremely tall young men who can play basketball...
Vol. 9 • December 1977 • No. 10
