Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leverett House doubled its budget to $2000 this year in honor of the festival's tenth anniversary. The additional money allowed the House to expand its art and photography competitions to include for the first time non-Harvard Boston area students...
...complaint frustratingly slow and unproductive. The Job Corps was designed explicitly for the "disadvantaged" -- and themost disadvantaged would be precisely those who had records of "antisocial behavior." President Johnson may win time with these concessions, fighting a holding action against critics until he has resources and political support to expand the program. But he is abandoning the strategy that he hailed so confidently in 1964, and returning to the uncoordinated and ineffective administration of welfare and income transfer programs that the nation has haphazardly accumulated over the past thirty years...
...Carnegie Corporation grant of $400,000 will finance a two-year Intensive Summer Studies Program for 100 college juniors, mainly Negroes. The Ford Foundation has given $187,000 to expand the program downwards this summer to include 100 students who have just completed their sophomore year of college...
Costa has made a point that he will vigorously push "all measures that increase agriculture and cattle production, as well as raise productivity." To expand Brazil's backward agriculture, he plans to step up the pace of a two-year-old land-reform program, aimed at extending credit to small farmers, providing them with technical guidance and breaking up the country's huge estates. It will be a much harder and longer task to eradicate the inevitable result of Brazil's farm troubles: the sprawling belts of poverty and misery throughout the countryside, where 50% of Brazil...
...last Saturday's anti-war rally in New York, King called for a national drive this summer -- led by college students -- to organize and educate communities against the war in Vietnam. He is expected to expand on this proposal Sunday...