Word: covered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cover) It was 9:33 p.m. on a cold and foggy Saturday in Britain when the word first came. Much of the country was sprawled in stuffed chairs watching an old Doris Day movie (Midnight Lace) on the BBC. First there was a fragmentary bulletin that broke into the movie, then a delay in the scheduled 10:25 news while scriptwriters scram bled to get together details. In millions of living rooms up and down the length of Britain, people watched transfixed while a gay Latin American dance rhythm blared from the box, which went blank except for a slide...
Last year Radcliffe managed to stay n the black, chiefly because of the increased level of gifts. The college's $25 million endowment does not generate enough income to cover annual expenses. The college therefore has to count on its fund raising efforts to meet the bill...
...recently announced elimination of the National Merit Scholarships may catch Harvard short of funds to cover every admitted student. Peterson said that in the past several years, no student has had to decline admission because of lack of financial...
Although some of the money will go for new courses and endowed professorships, most will cover new facilities, including a $14.5 million science center where students will have access to sophisticated computers and research equipment and lab courses will be delivered by TV. Harvard's science drive is the largest such specialized appeal ever launched by any college, but Ford expects that many more universities will be undertaking similar programs. "We can't say we're missionaries," he says. "But we can claim to be bellwethers...
...elitist way local "church groups and political clubs" to support it. I said that at the local level Freedom Budget supporters plan person-to-person work in '68 to counteract the backlash among low-income white voters by showing that racist appeals are used by reactionaries as a cover-up for anti-labor conservative social and economics policies. I also added that a supplementary effort would be made with "religious groups and community political organizations," not "political clubs" like Tammany Hall or the Daley machine. Steven Kelman...