Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Colleges may also get together to fill one specific need. An example is the recently organized Midwest College Council, with twelve members including some drawn from both the Associated Colleges of the Midwest and the Great Lakes Association. Because they have more than enough Midwest applicants, they hope to recruit Eastern youngsters. As Ripon's President Fred O. Pinkham puts it: "The mists rising from the Hudson River seem to obscure the view of the rich educational experiences awaiting students on the other side...
...Cover) The telephone was busy. First came a call from a Midwest Governor with a warning that labor trouble was brewing in his state-and a request that the U.S. Government step into the situation. Behind his big desk in a massive office building on Washington's Constitution Avenue, Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg listened intently, scribbled down notes on a scratch pad, and then politely but firmly refused to intervene: "It's my belief that it will be a lot better in the long run if we do not move in at this time...
...reforms abound as the year begins. New ways of teaching science, math, reading and foreign languages will reach more youngsters than ever. From noon seminars to Saturday morning classes, more time will be spent at studies. TV teaching will reach nearly half the classrooms in California. In six Midwest states, two DC-6 airplanes will beam taped lessons to earthbound schools under the Ford Foundation-financed Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction, which by June may reach 2,000,000 students...
...after a Senate investigation grudgingly absolved him of direct personal involvement in influence peddling; in his sleep; in Washington. During the 1948 campaign, Boyle conceived both Truman's vote-winning whistle-stop strategy and the concentration on Ohio and Illinois that carried the pivotal and previously written-off Midwest, was one of a handful of Democratic politicos who not only said but genuinely believed that Truman would...
...biggest Midwest bank mergers in a decade was only three days away. Then the Justice Department rushed into a Chicago court to demand a temporary injunction barring the move. The Government trustbusters were out to prevent the absorption of Chicago's City National Bank & Trust Co. (assets: $385 million) by its neighbor across La Salle Street, the Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. (assets: $2.8 billion...