Word: protectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President deferred the most sensitive decision to next year-how the corporation should be financed to protect it from political pressures. Also in the education field, Johnson called for a fourfold increase in the Teacher Corps (to 5,500 volunteers) by mid-1968 and expansion of programs to train new teachers and administrators, combat adult illiteracy and eliminate school segregation. Total cost of his education proposals: $11 billion...
...Bird could be nested, there were the problems of humidity and temperature to solve; in the Prince's vaults, where Ginevra had been kept, the temperature is 44°, humidity 55%. If the wood-panel oil heated or dried too quickly, the paint surface might crack. To protect against this, the suitcase was turned into what Feidler calls "a traveling thermos bottle"; the painting was wrapped in sheets of polyethylene and sealed airtight to keep it fresh, much like a sandwich in Saran wrap. Tests had shown that the suitcase temperature would rise at most...
Maybe, then, Johnson did appoint Goldberg to protect his flank in the international political game. And maybe Goldberg has been able to persuade the President to let him make the American position more palatable to its critics at home and abroad. The job has had its rewards. The responsibility for delivering the encouraging speech at Howard University, asking Hanoi to clarify the ambiguities in its statements on negotiations, fell to Goldberg. If McNamara or Rusk had delivered that statement, diplomats might not have been able to believe their own ears; but it should be disconcerting for Goldberg to realize that...
...best defense of the student deferment is that it is economical. America, the defenders of the 2-S insist, must protect its students to prevent the decimation of a generation of college students, such as occurred in Great Britain during World War I. The ranks of America's future leaders should not, they say, be thinned by war. A related argument is that most of the men in college deserve to be there, that the university in America is more the haven of the intellectually talented than a refuge for the rich...
Dean Price, however, stresses the Institute's financial independence, the range of views represented in its various visitors and affiliates, and sees little conflict between the Institute and academic disciplines. "There is no doubt that the University must protect its basic strength in the purely academic fields above all things, but I don't believe that activity in applied fields will detract from pure scholarship," he says...