Word: cotton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is one reason why the much-used phrase "Educational experiment" is mostly intellectual cotton candy. The other reason is the politics of making educational policy. An energetic administrator like McGeorge Bundy can push a remarkably popular program past the CEP and the Faculty; the one-quarter who opposed Soph Standing represented almost unprecedented strength of disagreement; politicking before meetings usually brings near-universal agreement or acquies cence, whatever is on the agenda. A recent questionnaire of Masoers, Senior Tutors, and CEP members indicated that not one quarter but thirteen out of seventeen favored either substantial revision or outright abolition...
...Chinese Premier Chou En-lai himself came to Ulan Bator and signed a treaty providing for $50 million in long-term loans to build a cotton mill, a sheet-glass factory, a 10,000-ton steel mill, an irrigation system, a circus, and a project for 240,000 square meters of apartment housing for Ulan Bator...
From the Wastebasket. Sometimes in passages, sometimes in no more than a phrase, the book contains the entire Lowry life and legend. He was the rebel son of a prosperous English cotton-broker father, and he shipped to the Far East as a deck hand at 17 after reading O'Neill's Moon of the Caribbees. The publisher lost the sea novel, Ultramarine, that Lowry wrote about his voyage, and Lowry rewrote the book from notes fished out of a Cambridge roommate's wastebasket. After graduating with honors in English, he drifted to Hollywood, New York...
Died. Cheng-ting T. Wang, 79, dapper Chinese statesman, high-ranking Rotarian, wealthy cotton and coal baron, polished diplomat, Y.M.C.A. official, who returned from Yale with a Phi Beta Kappa key in 1911 to help topple the Manchu dynasts, served the struggling Republic of China as Foreign Minister three times between 1922 and 1931, Prime Minister for a month in 1922, Ambassador to the U.S. in 1937 and 1938, moved to Hong Kong after World War II because China was being "enslaved by Communism"; of cancer; in Hong Kong...
...Through its wholly owned subsidiary, the United Africa Co., giant Unilever has staked $373 million-nearly one-quarter of its total investment-on Africa. An empire in its own right, the United Africa Co. operates in 29 African countries, sells more than 4,000 items, ranging from "mammy cloths" (cotton prints) to bulldozers. It runs an assembly plant for General Motors in Nigeria, has its own fleet of river boats, and tends more than 418,000 acres of palm-tree plantation. In 1960, despite Africa's political travail. United Africa had its best year, boosted its sales...