Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Choose Your Flag. Elected in 1957 to succeed a military junta, Villeda Morales made a start on agrarian reform, got $11.6 million in Alliance for Progress aid and used it to launch a modest development plan to educate his 1,950,000 people, build roads and attract new industry. Personally popular and staunchly antiCommunist, he kept Honduran far leftists at arm's length, helped labor clean out Red infiltrators. "I am asking you," he once told a labor rally, "to choose between Communism and democracy, between the blue and white flag of Honduras and the red flag of Russia...
...grounds that it would be unfair to listen for hours to one man's views and still enforce his 15-minute cutoff on office interviews with other associates. Men who have worked with him for decades and live in his Hampstead neighborhood have never stepped inside the modest, cluttered house at 12 Southway, where he lives with his wife Mary, a Congregationalist minister's daughter, and their two sons, Robin, 19, and Giles, 15. Says one acquaintance: "I don't think anybody really knows Harold. He hasn't got any friends, as you and I mean...
Sert spoke at length about the Holyoke Center. He stressed the importance of the Center as a "modest green bridge" through the business area "that is now called Harvard Square." While some have asserted that the facade is very brazen, Sert called it "sound architecture." Diffused light comes into the offices, with windows of various sizes corresponding to the room sizes...
...keep the exchange of ideas from bogging down in bureaucracy, Thornton and Litton President Roy Ash, 44, who helped to found the company, have held the staff in their modest Beverly Hills headquarters down to a manageable (and somewhat overworked) group of 114-despite the fact that the firm's total work force has swelled to 43,000. This way, no one has time to write lengthy memos, which Thornton does not like to read. In fact, if Litton's experience is any guide, one of the happiest aspects of the technological revolution may be the death...
There is hope, therefore, that Congress will move from the modest NDEA program to a large commitment to increasing educational opportunity. In so doing, supporters who are leery of the very real problem of federal control might take instruction from the NDEA example. Like any federal program, NDEA established a set of priorities, and educators must not let its emphasis on science and languages argue against support of the social sciences and humanities. But except for the abberation of section 1001 (f), NDEA has been free from the tight supervision and bureaucratic nitpicking that can hamstring federal programs. While...