Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...College." In 1901, when University of Chicago President William Rainey Harper helped found Joliet Junior College, the nation's first public two-year college, he thought of it as a mere extension of high school: "Students should complete their basic education before coming to college." Now Edmund J. Gleazer Jr., executive director of the American Association of Junior Colleges, envisions "a new kind of college standing between the high school and the university-democracy's college of this century...
Speeches and toasts were followed with readings by Actor Hume Cronyn and his wife Jessica Tandy, who recited from the works of such well-known authors as Sir Winston Churchill, Edmund Burke, T. S. Eliot, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lyndon Baines Johnson ("The Great Society asks not only how much, but how good . . ."). For the rest of the evening there was dancing. The President was not at his terpsichorean tops, but he did keep at it until...
...days." Anxious to oblige, McMillan Associates began making preliminary drawings for one of its first jobs-the University of Lagos -in April 1963, worked hard to get construction under way by the following September. But the architects cannot always cater to their clients' demands. Whiting Associates' President Edmund Whiting rejects proposals by new nations for massive hospitals with sophisticated equipment, fights for acceptance of more modest facilities "We could take their money," he explains but they would be losers...
...thousands, from the humble and the great. Relatives came and went. Moran, stooped and frail at 82, drove up two or three times daily to examine his patient, then read his simple, unemotional bulletins to the shivering newsmen outside. For 18 hours a day, bowler-hatted Detective Sergeant Edmund Murray, Sir Winston's longtime personal bodyguard, kept order in the crowded street. When Churchill's life appeared to be ebbing, Moran relayed Lady Churchill's request that reporters and TV crews disperse. Within minutes, the arc lights winked out, endless coils of wire were cleared away...
...briefcases stuffed full of balance sheets and revenue and repayment schedules, they are quizzed by committees of experts. Of the two largest services, Standard & Poor's makes 11,000 ratings a year, Moody's 9.000. "It is a judgment of analysts," says Moody's Vice President Edmund Vogelius. "No computer can come up with a rating...