Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from this cerebration will not be only one man's diagnosis of the nation's health. It will be, as it should, a report based on ideas gleaned from countless economists and educators, politicians and poets, official and unofficial advisers. With his wide acquaintanceship, his readiness to pick brains by phone or in person, and his considerable capacity for absorbing viewpoints, the President has as accurate and comprehensive a view of the state of the union...
...example, sends 90% of its students overseas. Stanford officials, however, prefer the branch concept, arguing that it permits them to shape their own curriculum abroad, eliminates any problems in meshing programs and credits, eases the need for extensive foreign-language instruction. It also permits the U.S. school to pick its own site instead of sending its students to crowded university towns where housing may be scarce and the influx of Americans may already be resented. "Because we don't do this," says Stanford's overseas director, Robert A. Walker, "we are popular with the communities in which...
...astronomical-as much as $5 billion. But the instrument could advance the infant art of radio astronomy to a rewarding maturity that might produce more scientific discoveries than the $40 billion program to put a man on the moon. And if while using their powerful instrument radio astronomers pick up a hint of an intelligent pattern in UHF signals from space, Oliver says, "an age-old question will have been answered. We will know that we are not alone...
...among children in tropical Africa. Yet last week top researchers from eleven countries journeyed to Kampala, the capital of Uganda, to pool their knowledge of both diseases. Some temperate-zone doctors suspect that both cancers may be caused by viruses, and they hoped, by studying the tropical lymphoma, to pick up tips on the "blood cancer" they call leukemia...
...supposedly invincible Bronx Bombers really did bomb out, and it wasn't so surprising in retrospect. And there would be just as little mystery tonight in McHugh Forum, where the Crimson really could beat the pollsters' pick for number one in the East...