Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer was to make the place bigger yet smaller-large enough to compete with the well-equipped state schools, but not so monolithic. He changed the name from college to university. Then-after visiting Oxford and Cambridge ("draftiest damn week of my life") for guidance-Burns set out to expand the university through "cluster" colleges: small, autonomous schools with ivied walls, beamed ceilings, great halls and high tables, the whole Oxbridge bit. The first to be opened was Raymond College, a $3,000,000 complex of seven buildings with more than 4,800 crop-rich acres as endowment. Though...
Peretz, one of the organizers of the group, said that the Friends of SNCC hoped "a large percentage of the money goes to Perlew," and that they would shortly expand their drive to include the University...
...doorway. Similarly, he favored mixing "problem" countries with "no problem" countries-so that he could have a breather between controversial sessions. Sometimes "problem" ministers proved to be just the contrary. Czechoslovakia's Foreign Minister Vaclav David, after probing for areas in which the U.S. and Czechoslovakia could expand trade, turned willingly to discussion of one longstanding problem. The Czechs, who in the past have refused safe exit to Czech-born U.S. citizens traveling in their country, agreed to cease the harassment. It was a small detail, but through normal diplomatic channels it could have taken weeks. Rusk and David...
...Pearl K. Wise, the only other Councillor not seeking re-election, declined yesterday to expand on the statement she issued last July, giving poor health as the reason for her withdrawal from public life. Observers do not believe Mrs. Wise can win a third term, without the support of the Cambridge Civil Association, which she apparently alienated by her opposition to the Donnelly Field urban renewal project...
Died. Henry Dinwoodey Moyle, 74, Salt Lake City millionaire and (since 1961) second-ranking officer of the 2,000,000-member Mormon Church, who sold his own oil company in 1947 to help administer the Latter-day Saints' formidable commercial empire, urging it to expand out of Utah into cattle ranches in Florida, Texas, Canada and Australia, choice Manhattan, London and Berlin real estate; of a heart attack; in Deer Park...