Word: mented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After winding for weeks through thickets of argument about states' rights and Mrs. Murphy's boardinghouse, the congressional hearings on the Administration's civil rights bill finally got to simple human realities. The witness: Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People...
During the 1950's, generous philanthropic support, especially from the Carnegie and Ford Foundations, financed a variety of Ed School projects. The Laboratory of Human Development, the Center for Field Studies, the School and University Program for Research and Develop- ment (SUPRAD), the Center for Studies in Education and Development, the Center for Research in Careers--all these were established, as centers so often are, to gain foundation money. The proliferation of centers has made Harvard a national leader in educational research, particularly in the behavioral sciences...
...remains determined to oust Castro (presumably by economic strangulation), but that the U.S. will not permit its policies to be controlled by exile "war parties." In acid Spanish, Hurwitch told Miro that the exiles must fall into line or "no Cuban exile will obtain access to U.S. Govern ment officials again...
Pasta & Fiats. As the waves of criticism rolled over him, De Gaulle loftily dismissed suggestions that his proposals might break up the entire Common Market scheme. "Nobody will quit the Common Market," he sniffed at a reception for members of the French Parlia ment. "Italy, for example. We send her iron and coal, and we buy her pasta and Fiats. She's very happy." As for Britain, he snapped contemptuously, "Britain has given back to America what atomic force she had. She could just as well have turned it over to Europe. Well, she's chosen...
...Imperial Palace) in Kyoto, spent hours studying the ancient temples in their garden settings. "I was overwhelmed by the serenity that can be achieved by enhancing nature," says he of those gardens. "It was here that I decided that serenity could be an important contribution to our environ ment, because our cities are so chaotic and full of turmoil." Work on the consulate general - a white structure raised slightly off the ground like a Japanese temple and surrounded by bronze and plastic sun screens- drew him to Japan again, and Yamasaki decided to go the long way and take...