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...shop, slowly added six more. "I wanted to expand," he says, "and I didn't have enough money." Winokur decided to license other businessmen to run his shops, now oversees 230 of them, with 45 more about to open. Big Sheraton Hotels chose franchising as a way to broaden the chain's image and get better use out of its vast Teletype reservation system. Of 120 Sheraton hotels and motels, 47 are now franchised...
With a surface machined to within a tenth of an inch, the new dish will also greatly broaden the range of radio wavelengths which the telescope can detect...
Decisions on Sigma Chi. College administrations are also losing patience with fraternities that still refuse, after some 15 years of pressure, to broaden their membership selection. National officers of Sigma Chi were to decide this week whether to kick out its Stanford chapter, which was suspended last year after announcing that it intended to pledge a Negro. The trustees of Brown University ordered the Brown Sigma Chi chapter to disaffiliate on grounds that the national organization was discriminatory. Sigma Chi has filed a federal suit to force the University of Colorado to end the probation of its Boulder chapter. Officials...
...turn off Gunsmoke and watch movies on the operation of jet aircraft, modern life of Eskimos, human anatomy, basic principles of electricity. Despite all the accent on viewing, students are not bored when they turn to books. The films arouse the children's interests, say the teachers, and broaden their vocabulary. Circulation in the school's 12,000-volume library has grown steadily since Project Discovery started...
Thomas E. Crooks, director of the Harvard summer school, said the intent of the program is "to broaden their hopes and possibilities and give them a wider basis for judging careers...Just the social effect of living with students from other parts of the country," he noted, "can be very beneficial...