Word: program
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school so small could have afforded to pay for the full-page appeal, Button called Robert C. Barr, TIME'S associate ad director in New York, to inquire about the ad. Barr explained that the junior college appeal had been run without charge as part of a special program that TIME began for colleges three years ago. But Barr made Button a sporting proposition: if the town of Surgoinsville could supply the illustration and wording, TIME would run an ad free...
...finding his confidence again on other fronts. As Democratic whip, Kennedy happily took over the majority leadership last week during a brief absence by Mike Mansfield. He skillfully managed to restore $3.9 million in committee to an education program for Eskimo and Indian children -and was scheduled to meet in New Mexico early this week with Indian leaders to discuss the bill. He floor-managed a National Science Foundation bill that resulted in a half-billion-dollar authorization. He led a fight to kill a $45 million appropriation to extend the west front of the Capitol, a particularly fatuous project...
...Cambridge, the new program operates a pilot school-a school-within-a-school-at the Rindge Technical High School. The school consists of 60 ninth graders intended to represent a cross-section of the Cambridge student population, high school teachers, several Harvard faculty members, and six Harvard doctoral students...
During a six-week planning session in self-government last summer, students drew up a constitution for the school. The directors of the program hope that such activities will help "teach responsibility in the use of power, and rationality in the settlement of disputes...
...program, directed by David E. Purpel, associate professor of Education, has received a grant...