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...meeting, held in the small stucco home of a Bosch supporter outside Santo Domingo, was set up by Interim President Héctor Garcia-Godoy, who has long insisted on the need to "broaden the middle and eliminate the sharp differences between the right and left." Both Bosch and Balaguer seemed intent on doing that...
Another objective of Scouting's new look has been to broaden the base of Scout sponsorship, long confined largely to churches and civic groups. Because of national council initiatives, Scout groups run by public-housing authorities have increased since 1960 from 210 to 704, those sponsored by settlement houses from 250 to 380. There are now 39 Scout groups at federal Job Corps camps, 14 at New Jersey's Camp Kilmer alone. As a "middleclass institution," says Job Corps Official David Gottlieb, Scouting appeals to Job Corps boys who "want to make...
...East Indian population growing far faster than the Negro segment-and thus producing more voters every year-Jagan hopes by election time to have the added racial support he needs to beat Burnham. Burnham's only hope is to chip away at the old color blocs and broaden his following. He is confident he can, but only the next election will tell...
...draw distinctions such as 2-S has attempted; a lottery abandons the attempt as hopeless. But could not 2-S be kept and even more skillfully used to overcome some of the problems of group poverty that are the real plague of the present system? Use 2-S to broaden the base of higher education by granting it with special largesse and tolerance among those less privileged groups that may require additional encouragement. Charles S. Maier
...Cambridge presents the possibility of joining the Harvard and M.I.T. facilities and faculties to broaden even more the opportunities for cultural events of significance," the letter said...