Word: developed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with AID and took an assignment in Phu Yen province, a hilly coastal area between Saigon and the North Viet Nam border. He was the only American in a region bristling with Viet Cong. In a short time, Grainger had begun to succeed in helping develop agricultural facilities, urban electrification, schools and health centers. "By the end of the summer," he wrote his mother and sister last May, "I hope to have 24-hour-a-day [electric] power. This will be an accomplishment for me. Tuy Hoa is the capital of the province and, therefore, must be the showplace...
...grant is the second to Harvard from the Ford Foundation this year. In January, $12.5 million was given to develop the University's program in international affairs. This grant will endow nine new professorships and help finance construction of a building to centralize Harvard's now widely-scattered international studies program...
...yesterday's report, the special committee declared that de facto segregation harms both Negroes and whites. "White children rarely meet Negro children as individuals. Their thinking often becomes stereotyped. Negro children growing up in ignorance of whites also tend to develop a distorted and fearful picture of all whites...
...cloak of a meaningless agreement." Since the condition for an end to U.S. military involvement is that Ho Chi Minh call off an army that is not his to command, it is Johnson's offer of "unconditional discussions" that is meaningless. The offer of $1 billion of aid to develop the Mekong delta and the expressed desire to see peace returned to that part of the world are an attempt to place the blame for continued fighting on the National Liberation Front, Hanoi, and China: "Merely negative responses from the Communists--should Hanoi and Moscow follow Peking's lead--will...
...method was being taught to actors both in America and in Europe. But while stable repertory companies continued to develop in Europe, America's theatre world became ensnared in the wealth and glamor of Broadway and Hollywood. Producers in the legitimate theatre relied on big hits to make their killings, and film makers built their companies around big name stars...