Word: extended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extend my deepest sympathy to Mme. Nhu on the death of her husband and brother...
...wielded a law allowing his government to lock up any Ghanaian without trial for five years, merely by charging that the activities of the accused might prejudice national defense, relations with other countries or security. Last week the Accra Parliament shouted through an amendment authorizing the President to extend for an additional five years the detention period of anyone held under the original act. The amendment is believed aimed at 40-odd opposition leaders who have been in prison since November 1958, accused (but never convicted) of conspiring to assassinate government ministers and to poison the main Accra water reservoir...
There are a number of steps the University can take to correct the vital omissions in its considerations. It should extend parietal hours to allow students more lesiurely privacy. And the University could be far more independent of pressures applied by local women's colleges and alumni for both shorter parietal hours and a forceful University position against pre-marital sex. But it is difficult to be very optimistic about the improvement of University policy in these areas...
...learn that I engineered a "plot" which "forced" Jeff Fraxier to resign. The alleged plot consisted of Jeff's stating that he would resign if our Club invited Governor Wallace to speak at Harvard alone. The majority of our Executive Committee and a majority of our members decided to extend such an invitation. That this course of events should be construed as a coup d'etat or a plot to overthrow is, at best, an unjournalistic attempt to stretch a point...
Whatever the legislature finally does, Nebraska merchants and lenders have a nonlegal threat of their own to brandish at installment purchasers who halt payments or bring lawsuits: they won't extend any more credit. Growled an Omaha banker: "Those who take advantage of these court decisions better have the cash next time they want to buy something...