Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whether or not one supports Ronald Reagan, one cannot help being impressed by his lucid guideline to the Berkeley situation: "No one is compelled to attend the university. Those who do attend should accept and obey the prescribed rules...
Algeria's leader clearly wants the help to keep coming. Though Boumediene still rails against "criminal American aggression in Viet Nam," he is privately imploring the U.S. for 500,000 tons of wheat. To improve relations with France, which has whittled Algerian aid by 50% because of continued friction between the two countries, Boumediene's government signed a new treaty with Paris last week that clears up at least one major area of dispute-the amount and terms of repayment of Algeria's pre-independence debt. Under the agreement, Algeria agreed to pay France $80 million...
...million peasants, who represent 80% of the country's population, Demirel is forming cooperatives, liberalizing agricultural credits, promoting the use of fertilizers and modern farm tools, setting up an agricultural college at Erzureem in eastern Anatolia, and building three dams for irrigation and rural power that will help double the country's electrical capacity...
...Chicago. This week a Fort Wayne businessman will attempt to help the hurt. Onetime Test Pilot George H. Bailey will start flying HUB Airlines, into which he is pouring $750,000. Using three Beech Queen Airliners, HUB will provide four round trips daily between Fort Wayne and Meigs Airport in downtown Chicago. Next month the service will be expanded to Cincinnati, and eventually HUB expects to be flying between Fort Wayne and Indianapolis, Detroit and Cleveland as well. HUB and a company called Altair Airlines, which begins Philadelphia-Albany service this week with interplant General Electric executives as its primary...
...such items as cash registers, adding machines and any coin-operated machines will not be subsidized, may well incur $224 million in conversion costs. The government itself expects to spend $134 million minting 9 billion new coins. It will also mount a $3,000,000 public-education program to help decimal haters like Winston Churchill's father, Lord Randolph Churchill, who claimed, "I never could make out what those damn dots meant." There will be plenty of time to learn, however: the changeover will not be for another four leisurely years-in February...