Word: extends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Filipinos, working on G.I.s and tourists, hold up huge bouquets or pieces of fruit while working on wallets in the visitors' hip pockets." ¶"Korean children extend cheap dolls to travelers on departing trains; as they bargain, the kids break the watch straps on the outstretched arms...
RESPONDING TO THE over jor reforms of Harvard's government are not legally impossible at the present. It might also be safe to risk asking the legislature to change laws to provide for faculty representation on the Overseers or to extend voting powers to University members who are not now eligible to vote for Overseers...
...goal is to demonstrate the capability for interplanetary travel," Administrator Paine said last week. "We are providing the most exciting possible answer to the age-old question of whether life as we know it on earth can exist on the moon and planets. The answer is yes. Man can extend the domain of terrestrial life throughout the solar system." If Paine's flat assertion sounded somewhat premature, or unduly optimistic, there was good cause. Apollo 10 was the sort of flight that can inspire even cautious men to let their words take wing...
...protests at Columbia University this spring, the gentlest was the three-day "sleep-in" at two men's dormitories staged by more than 100 girls from Barnard College. The girls asked that the two adjacent schools extend the concept of coeducation to include sexually integrated dormitories. Like the gentlemen they sometimes are, Columbia males had gallantly vacated a number of rooms to make the sleep-in not only possible but, so to speak, proper as well. Since an overwhelming majority of students at Barnard and Columbia are on record as in favor of the idea, the schools...
Responding to the protest, 40 Senators are now co-sponsoring a bill that would extend youth fares even if the CAB votes to discontinue them. A similar bill has been introduced in the House, but the chances are that Congress will not need to act. Impressed by the breadth and sincerity of the student protest, the CAB will probably overrule its examiner sometime soon and let the youngsters continue to fly high at half price...