Word: drives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grounds, the immediate difficulty will still be a financial one. Radcliffe girls are on the average from much wealthier families than Harvard undergraduates, and Radcliffe scholarships are proportionately fewer and smaller. Last week the Harvard Office of Admissions and Scholarships asked a huge supplementary budget grant to finance a drive to recruit more students from poverty areas. The capacity of the Office to give 300 new female students the same kind o scholarship treatment it gives male undergraduates is open to serious question...
Hickel's associates seem impressed with his enthusiasm and drive. What remains to be seen is whether energy can produce results in the most jealously guarded of all federal sanctuaries, the Washington bureaucracy...
What seems to distinguish the new drive from the old Great Leap, however, is its flexibility. There has been some advance planning, and there appear to be no rigid output targets. In fact, Peking is admonishing local officials to "leave enough leeway." Though not too much, of course. The goal of the latest campaign, as Shanghai radio explained it recently, is "a fruit that can be picked by jumping and reaching up, not a fruit that can be taken by stretching out one's arm from a lying or sitting position...
...other companies are rushing to grab a share. Lever Brothers, the U.S. arm of Unilever, is test-marketing its enzyme presoak, called Amaze. In addition, detergents containing enzyme additives have been introduced by the three biggest soap companies-Gain and Tide XK by Procter & Gamble, Punch by Colgate and Drive by Lever Brothers. Regular Tide, which has been the No. 1 detergent since its introduction in 1947, has been replaced entirely by Tide XK. Eventually, the enzyme-spiked detergents may push almost all regular detergents off the supermarket shelves, even though the enzymes take so much time to soak...
AFTER A MARGINALLY encouraging start, John Volpe seems headed for his first major blunder as Secretary of Transportation. Volpe announced this weekend that he would soon decide whether the government should continue its drive to build a supersonic transport (SST). In doing so, Volpe left broad hints that he is eager to send another $300 million of federal money down the SST drain...