41.   The foundation has its headquarters in Cedar Grove, N.J.

42.   The foundation also has adjunct laboratories at Ohio State, Stanford and Duke universities.

43.   The foundation has a separate site, www.orinoco.org, featuring hundreds of artifacts and in-depth looks at indigenous societies of the Orinoco basin in Venezuela.

44.   The foundation has no plans to sell art.

45.   The influential foundation had frosty relations with the company after Gruis turned down its efforts to distribute the vest at a much lower price.

46.   The new foundation will have tax-free status, run by a board of seven directors that includes Tompkins, under an agreement expected to be signed today.

47.   The State Department last year said the foundation had ties to Hamas.

48.   The unknowns include where the foundation will have its offices and how many employees it will have.

49.   Then a world that thought girdles were long gone to underwear heaven watched as foundations had a slow but steady reincarnation.

50.   Until last year, the foundation had no staff.