Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TITLE III has brought most enthusiasm from educators, since it involves no strings at all, aims at uplifting educational services to all students in public or private schools, in any way a local district sees fit. The first-year authorization of $100 million is certain to set off a keen competition for approval of local projects. Under this section of the bill, local districts will deal directly with Washington: Commissioner Keppel's office will select the projects it considers most worthy. Of the available funds, $200,000 must be set aside for each state, and the rest, roughly...
This is not to say that every student must secure his liberal education through the formal Gen Ed program. Occasionally a particularly well-prepared or imaginative freshman will be able to construct his own distribution program, composed entirely of departmental courses. Such programs, if legitimate, will reflect a keen sense of the qualitative meaning of general education rather than a cynical skill for manipulating ratios. The Gen Ed Committee should not only accept such programs; it should encourage them. And it should provide interested freshman with special advisors to help outline and coordinate the programs...
Seretse made it clear last week that he intends to walk the tightrope between white and black Africa. "We won't cut off economic relations with any country because of its politics," he explained. "Britain isn't keen on Communism, but she trades with Peking and Cuba. We don't like apartheid, but we will trade with South Africa." How about South Africa's feeling toward such a flagrant violator of apartheid'? Last week, after Seretse's victory, South Africa announced that the travel ban imposed after his marriage to Ruth had been lifted...
...keen competition to recruit the best brainpower on campus, U.S. corporations for some years have been offering successively bigger salaries, better benefits and brighter promises of fast promotion. Pay offers this year are up another 2½% to 4% , to an average $6,375 for seniors in nontechnical fields and $7,560 for engineers and other technicians. Last week, with the recruiting season reaching its peak, most of the Grade A or B collegians already had several feelers or firm offers...
...reportedly pays keen personal attention to the Viet Cong intelligence organization, headquartered in Hanoi under the title of "Central Research Agency" (Cue Nghien-Cuu Trung-Uong). Three special C.R.A. centers handle operations not only in South Viet Nam but in Cambodia and Laos as well. Terrorists and saboteurs receive a special six-month course in Haiphong, learning how to blow up everything from ships to oil storage tanks. One pint-size James Bond named Tran Van Bui was out fitted with an automatic pistol (plus silencer), explosives and a small knife that could inject poison...