Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looking for class leaders. We want the student who maybe once showed a brief spark but isn't very interested now," David J. Swanger, executive director of the project and teaching fellow in education, said yesterday. Students will be recommended next month by school teachers and a citizens' group from the Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee, then selected by the "Upward Bound" staff...
...joint communiqué, the President and Mrs. Gandhi agreed that there should be a "just and peaceful solution of this problem" and that Red China's aggressive policies "pose a threat to peace, particularly in Asia." That night, calling at the Indian Embassy ostensibly to make a brief farewell visit, the President stayed so long talking with Mrs. Gandhi that he was finally invited to remain for the black-tie dinner. "I'm happy to be asked," said the business-suited Johnson, thus causing a protocol scramble and breaking his own practice of never accepting reciprocal invitations from...
...Gandhi extended a warm invitation to the President to visit India, then moved on to Manhattan for a brief stop before flying to London to see Prime Minister Wilson. She gave a poised speech before the New York Economic Club, inviting private enterprise to socialist-leaning India and maintaining that India's troubles, though serious, are not really as bad as they are sometimes portrayed. With foreign assistance, she said, "we shall tide over the famine without too great suffering...
...passengers' eyes and pay off in ticket sales, but it can generate black, toxic fumes in a fire. To save weight, and make easy changes in the cabin configuration, seats are not moored to the floor as firmly as possible. Stewardess training is sometimes more of a brief charm school than a careful safety course. The lines have also handled safety drills and demonstrations in the cabin casually for fear of scaring away passengers. Recently, United pilots began to urge passengers to "pay strict attention" to the drills, but so many people complained that the announcements were quietly discontinued...
...with the universe. Instead of thinking of God as the immutable Prime Mover of the universe, argues Ogden, it makes more sense to describe him as "the ultimate effect" and as "the eminently relative One, whose openness to change contingently on the actions of others is literally boundless." In brief, the world is creating God as much as he is creating...