Word: extended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experiment, the program was nourished along this year with a $39,500 grant from the Harkness Foundation, and was expanded to fill the "dark" Monday nights of the park's Shakespeare Festival. The season was such a success with the crowds that plans are already afoot to extend it to two full weeks at next summer...
...agreement calls for a route from Karachi and Dacca, in East Pakistan, to Canton, Shanghai and Tokyo. To this end, the Chinese will extend the runways in Shanghai and Canton to handle Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720 jets, which are expected to begin the new run next year. If the Japanese go along as they may if Japan airlines get reciprocal rights, the Sino-Pakistan deal would be not only a political but an economic plum: for years Western airlines, including BOAC, have tried but failed to obtain landing rights in China. In Washington, the State Department termed...
...such feelings, it would not be enough to extend his hotel chain merely for the sake of profit. His international expansion becomes a Hilton plan for world peace in which "people gather together in our hotels and get along with one another." "We think we are helping out in the struggle that is going on in the cold war today with world travel," says Hilton. "These hotels are examples of free enterprise that the Communists hate to see." He likes to say that "we beat Communism into the Caribbean by ten years," and one of his top financial backers, Henry...
...local capital-either private or government-to supply the land, the building and the furnishings; Hilton puts up the operating capital and runs the hotel. Two-thirds of the gross operating profit goes to the hotel's owners, one third to Hilton. This method enables Hilton to extend his chain rapidly without putting himself deeply into debt. He gives his local managers autonomy to adjust to local conditions and to set rates (which vary from $14 a night in London for a single to $5.75 in Berlin). The proof of the system's success is that every...
LITTLE ROCK, ARK. The city school board voted to extend desegregation to the first and fourth grades this fall, and assigned nine Negroes to formerly all-white schools. The action completes Little Rock's court-approved desegregation plan a year earlier than had been required, or expected...