Word: drives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TRUSTEES have no official power, so that any consensus reached on Saturday would be only an advisory opinion. But with the avowed wish of bringing alumnae deeper into college policy-making, Mrs. Bunting is likely to follow their sentiments; the College Fund Drive is still twenty million dollars short of its goal. If the trustees are in favor, the Radcliffe Council might then meet with the Harvard Corporation on March...
Merger proposals come at an ill time in one sense. Radcliffe needs wide alumnae financial support for its Building Fund Drive, yet at the same moment must announce it is considering disappearing. The appeal of mater noma will survive at least. The Radcliffe Institute intends to keep its name regardless of undergraduate liaison. Still, by the time merger could be completed, the fund drive will most likely be over...
...been active in what is commonly called "Huklandia," an area in Central Luzon where social and economic ills create a fertile breeding ground for discontent. At the height of the insurgency in 1950-51, the Huks had an estimated 20,000 well-organized men under arms. A concerted government drive led by the late Ramon Magsaysay, then Defense Secretary, whittled that number down drastically, but did not succeed in stamping out the insurgents. To thousands of peasants, the Huks, an odd farrago of idealistic reformers, nationalists, Communists and mere bandits, are still Robin Hoods who mete out swift and bloody...
...interesting both intellectually and sexually than any ingenue or debutante. "Boys and girls should leave each other alone," declares Author Stephen Vizinczey (In Praise of Older Women). "Trying to make love with someone who is as unskilled as you are seems to me about as sensible as learning to drive with a person who doesn't know the first thing about cars either." Besides, as Benjamin Franklin remarked in a letter urging a young friend to seek the companionship of older women, "They are so grateful...
...successful drive against inflation would cause some dislocations in the job market. It would also temporarily result in generally lower increases in corporate profits, returns on investment and wages. "If we do manage to restore relative price stability, it won't be painless," says Norman Robertson, economist for Pittsburgh's Mellon National Bank. Inflation is so pervasive-and the task of stopping it so wrenching-that the pain is likely to be shared in some degree by almost every American...