Word: adds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second-level leaders who had proved their worth in the provinces were brought to Peking to administer the growing central bureaucracy. As a consequence, most of the major tasks in the provinces were left to what might be termed the rising third echelon of leaders. One hastens to add that these men were by no means newcomers; although slightly younger than the very top leaders, their ties with the CCP also stretched back two or three decades...
...attention than it has been receiving at Harvard. It is the scientific frontier of the sixties--involving research in genetic codes, cancer, and the workings of the brain. If Harvard is to remain a leader in experimental science, it must build up its program of instruction in biochemistry and add more biochemists to the Faculty...
...dismissal also makes the finding of a successor difficult, since rightly or wrongly many educators now regard the former president as an academic martyr. As pieced together from Kerr and the accounts of various regents, the details of the president's removal are now clear -and they add up to what one regent calls "a tragedy-because no one wanted it to happen then." Although a majority of the board had long since lost faith in Kerr, they did not want his dismissal to coincide with a new Governor's assumption of office, precisely in order to avoid...
...city's electorate rarely thinks of its mayor as a grand patron of architecture. But by the massive weight of budget appropriations for new construction, he is. And never is the mayor's lot more difficult, and challenging, than when he has to add to, and alter, one of the city's prized possessions. Last week two mayors faced such a task. Each took a different route to a solution, and both felt that they had not only preserved but even added to the city's heritage...
Others, like Jackie Kennedy, who bought a set of psychedelic-colored plastic boxes, do so just because the shape and shade of the things appeal to them. And still others-maybe the majority-buy conversation pieces that they can add to their collection of comic books and Humphrey Bogart posters, reducing the whole march toward mind expansion to a close-order drill on the old campground...