Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...focus of the program will be a set of informal lectures and seminars held in the unit common rooms. Student suites were converted this fall to provide a center for intellectual and social life in each complex of dorms...
...school, have been interested in Harvard by increasing national publicity and recruiting. Their ability to produce on tests and exams is their principal recommendation--but, they are rightly led to believe, the same skills will establish their success in college. Increasing pressure for admission will force all students to focus on these skills, and make it increasingly difficult for the admission office to distinguish other qualifications. Thus, the danger is not merely that the tests become meaningless, but also that the applicants adopt the camouflage of acting like potential scholars. Growing uniformity of post-college plans pre-determines an increasing...
...clearly has a will to survive and succeed (see The People). Despite unemployment and small weaknesses in the economy, the nation has the prosperity to pay for freedom. There can be little doubt that John Fitzgerald Kennedy, if he asks for it, can gather the national riches and focus the national energy and will for the creative work that lies ahead in building stronger alliances to preserve and make liberty secure...
...journey is a speech before the U.N. General Assembly. But the success of the trip hangs most heavily on the crucial hours that the crisis-ridden Argentine President is scheduled to spend in informal conversation with Kennedy in New York City. Frondizi believes that the Alliance for Progress should focus on nations already on the road to economic maturity (i.e., Argentina) as an object lesson for less fortunate nations. Cost of the focus on Argentina he has in mind: $2 billion...
...Senator Paul Hertz, West Berlin's Economics Minister, representing Mayor Willy Brandt. The exhibit, which will be in the Reception Center until Oct. 9 and then is expected to go to other U. S. cities, brings the Soviet-created Berlin crisis into vivid and frequently dramatic close-up focus. A large turntable rotates an illuminated color map of the divided city. Animated lighting depicts its air, waterway, rail and highway routes to the free world. Large panels of photographs show facets of life in West Berlin. Motion pictures catch the excitement of recent events: the cheers of welcome...