Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majority of students, faculty members and administration officials appeared to be genuinely interested in undertaking a creative dialogue on how to best lift the university out of the chaos wrought by the demonstrations. Leading the effort was an executive committee of twelve professors, set up by the faculties of Columbia's 15 schools, that won administration commitment to the principle of an increased role in university operations for both students and faculty...
...switch. While a minor victory in terms of delegate strength, it had a psychological impact. One of the strongest anti-Nixon arguments within the party is that Rockefeller, while not an orthodox Republican, is a vote-getting Republican, and the Bay State vote gave that thesis a little lift...
...only strengthen the protectionist mood in Congress, 16 industrial countries* last week offered some extraordinary help. They volunteered to speed up a portion of their scheduled Kennedy Round tariff cuts while allowing the U.S. to delay its own cuts. This tariff advantage would give the U.S. trade balance a lift through 1969 estimated at $300 million...
...success of the conversion program has also given the city a psychological lift. "We had a real lack of confidence in our ability to merchandise our town," says the Chamber of Commerce's Greeley. "This gave us a kick in the pants when we needed it the most." Indeed, Springfield is so kicked up about the success of its program that it has undertaken to raise another $650,000 to buy as a tourist attraction a collection of 11,000 small arms that is said to be the world's biggest and best and is being eyed...
Director Brynych's stark, symbolic explorations of human despair lift The Fifth Horseman to a high level of creative cinema. The search by the secret police for Braun's wounded patient is more conventional, though still visually exciting. When the other tenants living in Braun's apartment house are eventually implicated, they become only too willing to sacrifice him to the Nazis, and when at last they are forced to pass his dead body on the stairs, only a madwoman and a child so much as give it a glance...