Word: fords
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Underwritten by a grant from TIME, the tour will bring together panels of such leading foreign-affairs experts as Political Scientist Robert Scalapino, Teodoro Moscoso, former coordinator of the Alliance for Progress, and Wayne Fredericks of the Ford Foundation. At every stop, public discussions will be held under the sponsorship of local World Affairs Councils and universities. Starting this week in Los Angeles, the jet-borne conference will visit San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Houston, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Chicago and Dallas. The meetings are meant for community participation; those who wish to attend should call their local World...
Although plenty of Columbia's students and faculty are indifferent to the plight of their Harlem neighbors, the university is using $10 million of Ford Foundation funds on projects designed to improve housing, schools and legal services in the neighborhood. Nonetheless, Columbia Vice President David Truman concedes that "we simply have not been tooled up to manage our public image." Other officials concede that some residents of the rooming houses were ousted without proper regard for relocation. Belatedly, the university has set up its own relocation office, sometimes offers small grants to help tenants move. The great irony...
...example, he explained, Ford can do more for relocation of displaced workers by putting profits into employment programs than by giving money to the Ford Foundation for relocation studies, he said...
...Ford commented after the meeting that the support of the large language departments was probably decisive in winning Faculty approval of the reduction, which will go into effect next fall and apply retroactively to students who would have needed a second year of language study under the old rule to pass the requirement...
...been working on this one for about five years," Ford said last night. The new department was approved last month by the CEP, and many likely details of its structure were outlined in a massive HPC audit of the Arch Sci department this fall...