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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...computers will be open from 6 p.m. to 10 a.m. Monday through Saturday and all day Sunday. "Staying away from prime computer time gets us better rates." said Richard G. Leahy, assistant dean for Resources and Planning...
General Earle G. Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was visiting the area when the attacks took place. Wheeler said he was expecting the enemy to concentrate on the Delta because the U. S. 9th Infantry Division had recently been withdrawn from the area...
...some economists believe, Communist China could have been very largely self-sufficient by about 1967. But Mao, with his rigid dogmatism, was impatient. In 1957, he launched his Great Leap Forward-a single heroic burst that would overnight transform China into a modern nation. The targets were preposterous-e.g., a 33% annual increase in industrial production-and so were the demands made on the people. "In those days, the workers never went home," a factory manager told Austrian Journalist Hugo Portisch. "They stayed at their machines twelve, 14, 16 or 20 hours at a time. They had only...
...much higher; many of the nearly 3,000 objects are of a kind and quality no longer obtainable on the art market, making it impossible to assess their true value. Besides paintings (such masterpieces as El Greco's St. Jerome as Cardinal and Rembrandt's The Painter, Gérard de Lairesse) and drawings, the collection includes bronzes, tapestries, ceramics, jewelry and furniture from the 12th to the 20th century. Said Museum Director Thomas Hoving to the 400 guests at the lavish party in honor of the Met's benefactors: "The sad thing is that Robert Lehman...
...last year gave the University 25 percent less than Harvard had expected, Richard G. Leahy, assistant dean of the Faculty for resources and planning, said yesterday...