Word: extended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lies the sovereign right, defended by Americans of all decades of self-protection. It was perhaps best'expressed by a great Secretary of State, Elihu Root, who wrote in 1914: "it is well understood that the exercise' of the right of self-protection may, and frequently does, extend in its effect beyond the limits of the territorial jurisdiction the state exercising it ... [It is] the right of every sovereign state to protect itself by preventing a condition of affairs in which it will be too late to defend itself...
...Faculty Committee on the Houses voted last Wednesday to extend House parietal hours to midnight on Saturday evenings after home football games. The Committee thus restored to the large fraction of Harvard undergraduates who ignore football games the privileges they would ordinarily have had if another large fraction did not ignore them. Hurrah...
With the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis League Championship in sight, the Harvard tennis team ran through Cornell and Army this weekend to extend its ague record to 7-0 and its regular season mark...
...providing clothing and shoes for the needy, to assigning social workers to work with parents of the poor. Georgia expects to finance kindergartens, which have proved invaluable in easing the transition from a bad home environment; only half of U.S. public-school districts now maintain them. Cleveland plans to extend its school day past 3:30 p.m. to permit an array of remedial reading and arithmetic classes, individual tutoring, personal and vocational counseling. Atlanta hopes to set up workshops for the teachers who will teach the poor, since most are from middle-class backgrounds and may be out of touch...
...cemetery. But since it, like everything else, is a monument, the new $11 million hospital will rise elsewhere: in the slummish San Giobbe sector, where the city slaughterhouse stands, and also the gateway to the city. The available land is nearly 7½ acres, but Corbu plans to extend the hospital for nearly five more acres across the water. Ironically, the man who first put modern buildings on stilts, or pilotis, as he calls them, now can put them to their most logical use. "The silhouette of Venice is sacred," declared Corbu as his model for the hospital was displayed...