Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to Griffin, three other visiting professors will teach history courses next year. Henry T. Wade-Gery, professor at Oxford University, will offer a Fall half-courses on the Greek renaissance and archaic Greece...
Diplomatic informants who disclosed this said the four governments would send separate but similar notes to the Kremlin within a few days. In effect, they will offer Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev a heads of government session on German problems...
...school standards is quite significant. Such an assumption does not seem well-grounded; for the schools which would respond by directing their college prospects to take the courses Harvard demands are probably those schools who now teach the most mathematics anyway. But the rural, Western and Southern schools which offer only a curricular minimum are unlikely to change to meet Harvard's demands. If Harvard should impose a math requirement, it would cut itself off from much good material...
...reasonable compromise. At a Communist rally in East Berlin, Khrushchev casually announced: "We would not mind even if U.S., British, French and Soviet troops-or some neutral countries-maintained minimum forces in West Berlin." Scarcely had Khrushchev said it when Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt rejected the "offer" out of hand. It was, declared Brandt, no more than a scheme to get Soviet troops into West Berlin and "cook the city over a slow fire...
...well-off Cleveland suburb of Lakewood, Ohio saw no good reason last year to offer French and special science courses below the high-school level, as suggested by a band of determined parents. So the parents signed up a French teacher and two working scientists as instructors, charged pupils 50? a lesson, soon had a booming after-school program of their own (TIME, June...