Word: extended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goals of this bill," concluded Humphrey, "are simple ones: to extend to Negro citizens the same rights and the same opportunities that white Americans take for granted...
...appointments, which will take effect July 1, extend the University's linguistic coverage from the Near and Far East through Europe to the Americas. The only major area still without a Faculty expert will be African linguistics, a gap which the University currently has no plans to fill...
Questioners wondered just how socialist was Socialist Defferre. The answer seemed to be, not very. Defferre, who owns a yacht and bosses a prosperous newspaper, Le Provencal, would extend nationalization only to a few businesses "too much identified with the Gaullist regime," and possibly to the big, privately owned investment banks. Defferre, of course, promises to reverse the rising French cost of living, which has resulted in a plague of nationwide strikes by civil servants and factory workers...
With the help of modern electronics, Australian and British astronomers at the University of Sydney have managed to extend their star measurements by using a pair of 22-ft. parabolic mirrors. There is no need for the mirrors to be ground carefully enough to bring star light to the precise optical focus that is required by a standard telescope. All that is necessary is that they feed the light into photomultiplier tubes that turn it into electric current. Each mirror is made of 250 small hexagonal mirrors, good enough for the purpose and a great deal cheaper than the single...
...Kick from Lyndon. The cigarette companies were getting burned on many sides. New York City's Health Commissioner, Dr. George James, said that the city was considering a labeling law of its own that could well extend to all the advertising carried by TV programs or publications originating in Manhattan. Even Lyndon Johnson kicked the industry in his hour-long television interview: "I gave up cigarette smoking because the doctor recommended that I do so, and I have missed it every day, but I haven't gone back to it, and I am glad that I haven...