Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...change came as a result of a move by Sir Hamilton A. R. Gibb, University Professor and heads of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and by Frank M. Gross, Jr., Curator of the Semitic Museum, to expand the scholarly base of that department in order to accommodate studies that are related to, but nor included in, Semitic culture. These include Iranian, Turkish, and other such fields of research...
Rockefeller himself headed for his wife's family home in a Main Line Philadelphia suburb, grinningly refusing to expand on his "command decision." Why had he done it? One possible reason was that the latest batch of polls from New Hampshire showed him running a dismal 15% to Nixon's 75%, with the rest of the vote scattered over other candidates. Also, he was about to head into a new session with his state legislature, and some upstate Republicans, solid for Nixon, had threatened to give Rockefeller embarrassing trouble at home (adding to the circumstance that Tom Dewey...