Word: directing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Imitating the U.S.'s interstate highway system, Russia is building 39,000 miles of two-and four-lane paved roads-punctuated by 40 new motels. Formerly closed cities are being opened up, and internal flight schedules are being expanded. This fall, Pan Am and Aeroflot expect to commence direct flights between New York and Moscow (9 hr. 10 min., $548 on the 21-day excursion plan). And to make sure the tourist flow keeps up, Intourist, the state-run travel agency, is now priming the pump in good capitalist fashion with a $1,000,000-a-year advertising budget...
...case of the Reston column, the President didn't want to dignify Kennedy's objections with a direct answer. so he and his Administration were happy to reply anonymously through the editorial page of the Times. The column served the second purpose, so closely is the Times read abroad, of telling Moscow, Peking and Hanoi just what the Administration was thinking--or at least just what the Administration wanted those capitals to think it was thinking...
...Russian failure to back rhetoric with substantive help at crucial points has also been well illustrated in the Congo quagmire, which since July 1960 has threatened to draw in the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. as direct adversaries. Each time considerable Russian involvement was needed to give Soviet clients a chance at success, the Communists backed down. This has been a pattern from the fall...
Lumumba to the failure of the 1965 rebel groups. The Soviets have encouraged only so long as they could avoid massive direct intervention...
While it is doubtless true that the university has become a more exciting place during his four-year tenure, you give too much direct credit to him for some innovations. The decision to eliminate the B.E. degree and replace the engineering school with a department of engineering and applied science was taken during the last years of President Griswold's administration, though it was in large part implemented after his death. The equally new idea of permitting undergraduates a wider choice of courses outside their major field evolved after several months of study by the undergraduate course-of-study...