Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Uninvited. In view of Romney's past record of running as a loner, Griffin had scant hope for help. But things are different this year. Romney now has realistic hopes of winning the Republican presidential nomination. His prospects were advanced last week by a national poll that gave the Governor only 2% less support than Lyndon Johnson. In another survey, top Republican "citizens" (as opposed to party professionals) rated Romney a heavy, 40%-to-29% favorite over Richard Nixon for the 1968 G.O.P. presidential nomination. As Romney well knows, the national Republican powers would consider him a leading candidate...
With the two toughest meets of the season out of the way, the harriers settle down to Ivy League competition. They tackle Columbia and Penn in a three-way meet Friday in New York and the prospects look much brighter. Right now, Harvard's 0-2 record can't help but get better...
...remains that Dirksen will cling to the hope of passing it at some future date, and may devote his considerable power as minority leader to his crusade. Dirksen's concern is needed for more important legislation. With President Johnson's once-formidable legislative phalanx fragmenting, the Administration needs Republican help badly in Congress. Dirksen has the ability to deliver the kind of bipartisan support that Johnson himself gave President Eisenhower, or to with-hold it -- as he did over the new civil rights bill. With vital legislation teetering between passage and defeat, Dirksen could tip the vote against bills...
...quiet, methodical worker with strong convictions, and nowhere is this style more evident than in the series of fund drives he has backed. He has undertaken them systematically, giving his personal attention one at a time to the different areas he feels need and deserve the most help. First, there was the $82 million Program for Harvard College, which built two new Houses, Holyoke Center, and William James Hall. In the early '60's, he concentrated on the $58 million Program for Harvard Medicine, and now he will work on the $49 million Program for Harvard Science. In addition, Pusey...
...Food and Drug Administration has enlarged its team of agents in the Boston area to help control the growing trade in illegal drugs at local universities...