Word: partial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...catch was that to the Lebanese, business means bartering, and bartering is both an art and an adventure. So MEA's chairman, Sheik Najib Alamuddin, proposed to the British that his company would make partial payment for the jets in the form of surplus Lebanese apples; this would work out very nicely for the sheik, who is himself one of Lebanon's biggest apple-growers. The British, however, did not like them apples. Another idea-forming a British Aircraft Corp. subsidiary that would lease the planes to the Lebanese-was dashed last week when the British government revoked...
...program will locate vacancies in private schools and bring qualified Negro students to the schools' attention. It will include an "Educational Action Center" which will advise and screen applicants, and publicize the vacancies. BASPP hopes to place 75 to 100 students in private schools, on a partial or full scholarship basis by next fall...
...from the gamble-fund as much as the individual students. First, the experiment has focused attention on aid to the student, particularly scholarship students. "Because of programs like this," Briggs says, "Harvard facilities have become geared to help people." He notes that counseling services have especially improved. As a partial result, the percentage of all scholarship students who stay for four years has increased...
...that Professor Eliphalet Pearson kept what he called a Journal of Disorders. "In the hall at breakfast this morning," he recorded on Dec. 9, "bisket, tea cups, saucers & a knife thrown at tutors. At evening prayers the lights were all extinguished by powder and lead." A partial list of college casualties during this period includes one undergraduate dead in a duel at South Carolina College and another at Dickinson, several students shot at Ohio's Miami University, a professor killed at the University of Virginia, and the president of Mississippi's Oakland College stabbed to death...
Aside from partisanship, other pitfalls exist in the sort of "instant history" that Schlesinger has undertaken. Even if he had not been partial to the Administration, some critics ask, wouldn't his very closeness to events distort his perspective? Harvard Economist J. K. Galbraith, perhaps Schlesinger's best friend, thinks not. "Saying he was too close to events is like saying he had too much information," says Galbraith. But won't future books offer a much better perspective? Says Author Theodore H. White, who has written a good deal of instant history himself...