Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outstanding cross-country effort by Steve Hinkle, who finished fifth, could not prevent Harvard from slipping into seventh place in that event...
Plans for the college are still vague, but college administrators have been meeting since January 1 with Model Cities Administrator Paul Parks to plan just how each would be able to contribute to the effort. The main source of funds will be the Boston Model Cities program, which provided for a community college. Parks' present plan is to have each university provide a specific program. The new college would take anyone who applied, including high school dropouts and middle-aged housewives...
...nothing came of these informal contacts. Harvard reportedly insisted that Radcliffe make a greater effort to bolster its shaky financial status, and Radcliffe was not over-eager to dissolve into a division of the larger University...
...around Knick Forward Bill Bradley, apparently in the belief that only a former Rhodes scholar could articulate the secret of the team's success. "I've never seen a team pull together the way this one is now," said Bradley. "Pulling together isn't just an effort of will. The important thing is that we're getting to know one another - -personally and in terms of the way we play." Injuries hurt the team but, preaches Bradley, "adversity tends to make a team pull together. Everyone thought we'd be down, crippled. That...
Washington is certainly, if belatedly, making the effort-and that effort is beginning to pinch the public. The 10% tax surcharge shows signs of reducing some consumer demands; retail sales have rolled along on a plateau since last fall. The federal budget is expected to shift from last year's deficit of $25 billion to a small surplus in fiscal 1969, resulting in far less Government-generated economic demand. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve Board has moved to tighten the money supply. After growing at an annual rate of more than 7% in late 1968, the supply rose...