Word: broader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last third of the directors shows an even broader reach. This third will be made up of men who reflect what Pollack calls "the general interest"-- men like Galbraith and another director, Rev. James O'Donohoe, a dean of students from St. John's Seminary in Brighton...
...whose newtown plans meet standards prescribed by HUD. The department has already received 17 formal applications and has tentatively committed $30 million to Park Forest South, 28 miles south of Chicago. If the U.S. is to build similar new towns on a large scale, however, HUD officials think that broader legislation and a vastly larger federal role will be necessary...
Though Jensen's work deals with subject matter far broader than the racial issue, his review of the genetic influence on intelligence was apparently triggered by developments in urban education. Recent discoveries have severely jolted scholars of urban school systems. Academics spent the last decade arguing that improving the environment of black children with infusions of money and material would bring them up to educational parity with whites. Out of this academic barrage emerged the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, which has poured billions of dollars into compensatory education for the disadvantaged in urban schools. Now, four years...
...people most responsible for the early success of the highway program was John A. Volpe, the nation's first Federal Highway Administrator. Today, however, Volpe's responsibilities are much broader than those of his earlier job. Instead of merely concerning himself with the problem of how to build more and better roads he must now weigh the needs of airlines, railroads, urban populations, and a vast range of national problems in making transportation decisions. It was encouraging to hear Mr. Volpe say, in his first press conference as Secretary of Transportation, that "highways alone...
Early last Fall, SDS focused its attention on the presence of ROTC at Harvard. As the New York Times pointed out in December. ROTC-graduated second lieutenants play a vital role in the Vietnam War. From a broader perspective, the U.S. military provides support for America's more refined imperialist presence in underdeveloped countries around the world with soldiers, weapons technology, and training in counter-insurgency methods...