Word: granted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week began with a slapstick squabble over a bill to waive the requirement that radio and television grant equal time to all candidates. The waiver would have cleared the way for presidential debates among the major candidates-something that Hubert Humphrey wants and Richard Nixon, as the man with a big lead to preserve, does not. In their maneuvering over the bill the Democrats staged a lock-in in the House, and the Republicans held a sit-out in the Senate. When House Republicans conducted a 27-hour filibuster by insisting on time-consuming roll calls (45 of them, each...
...protest by Congress. It passed an amendment to the Higher Education Act that would cut off all forms of federal aid to any student who has "contributed to substantial disruption" of a college. The threat hangs over the head of any student who has a federal loan, educational opportunity grant, loan insurance, fellowship or subsidized part-time job. Nearly one-fifth of all college students fall into one or another of those categories...
...less a dramatic polemicist is Peter Schumann, 34, a German sculptor and choreographer who came to the U.S. seven years ago and organized the Bread and Puppet Theater. Schumann and his fellow actors perform mostly in New York City slums where, since receiving a grant two years ago, they run workshops in which ghetto children can make puppets. Before each performance, the company tears fresh loaves of pumpernickel into bits and passes them through the audience-an artistic communion that both engages the viewers' participation and sets the group's humanistic tone. "All of our shows...
...blacks and whites alike, have formed combines to assist fellow Negroes. Three years ago, a group of pro football players, including the Cleveland Browns' ex-Fullback Jimmy Brown and the Washington Redskins' Guard John Wooten, started the nonprofit Negro Industrial and Economic Union. With a $520,000 grant from the Ford Foundation and $251,000 from the Commerce Department, the union has helped finance firms in half a dozen cities. Using such aid, former Barber Dennis Taylor, 29, has built his year-and-a-half-old Magnificent Natural Products Inc., a Los Angeles cosmetics manufacturer, into a thriving...
...projected budget shows a drop of more than $1 million in Faculty income. Much of this will come from discontinued government grant programs, Ford said...