Word: asking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John F. Kennedy came to Cambridge to ask the Economics Department how to write a Labor Reform Bill, and promised local citizens that his Senatorial campaign would be marked by "fewer tea parties" and a more down-to-earth approach. When the Senator cancelled his world-wide speaking tour, people took this to mean that he would campaign inside the State this time...
Abruptly, Marek Hlasko returned to West Berlin, reportedly approached the resident Polish military mission to ask about returning to Warsaw. After dropping out of sight for a lost weekend, he surfaced at Tempelhof airdrome with a flight ticket to Tel Aviv and an Israeli tourist visa good until March. Landing in Israel last week, unshaven and fatigued, Hlasko holed up in an obscure hotel for 24 hours before joining up with Jan Rojewski, an old Polish friend who now lives in an Israeli kibbutz...
...experimental teaching and guidance program offers a fair chance to complete high school, and for the brightest, a hope of going on to college. This week, after more than two years' trial, the New York City board of education pronounced the experiment a success, planned to ask for $500,000 to extend the program to some 30 lower-income-area schools...
...after-hours class trips, get repeated personal counseling. At George Washington, stocky, balding Counselor David Schulman, who grew up in Brooklyn, sees individual students as often as three times a week. Sometimes they merely want to hear a friendly word; sometimes they need real help. Counselor Schulman will ask for a social worker to cope with an alcoholic father, arrange an appointment with the project psychologist for children whose lives are impossibly tangled, or give out small sums from project funds to help buy food. One measure of his success: not one of the project's teen-agers...
...intellectual." ask me whether or not I think they are upper-middlebrows...