Word: provenance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bold Projects. The basic role of these foundations, explains Heald, has long been to "provide the cutting edge for social advance by calling wider attention to important problems and supporting experiments and testing ideas that may be applied on a national scale if proven effective." The foundations have been so successful at this that the Federal Government has adopted many of their ideas in such educational programs as the preschool Head Start training for deprived children, school curriculum development, grants to improve university graduate programs in science and engineering, interdisciplinary research in biochemistry and biophysics, much of the Elementary...
This year's team has proven itself to be of the same caliber as the Keith Sedlacek - Barry Williams freshman squad of 1962. This team has an equally good record and just as much varsity potential...
Modest though it was, the plan represented quite an unbending of the French economy by De Gaulle's austere standards for his Fifth Republic. The man he chose to carry out the change is a proven expert in bending over backward: Finance and Economics Minister Michel Debré, 54. Before he became De Gaulle's first Premier in 1959, Debré had been totally committed to keeping Algeria French; his main task turned out to be implementing De Gaulle's policy for Algerian independence. De Gaulle rewarded Debré in the arbitrary manner of princes, dumping...
Until the recent rise of book-jacket specialists, English publishers frequently paid recognized artists to design jackets. Since commercialized publicity jackets have proven ineffective in England, publishers have stressed tasteful, artistic appeals to a discriminating public. Kleist's favorite designer is Edward Ardizzone, an illustrator of children's books who Paints "typically English, Dickensian characters" in subduded watercolors...
Robert J. DeGiacomo, an attorney for Curry, urged Saturday that the Council suspend Curry's hearing until the criminal questions had been resolved. Barring this, he said, the three councillors ought to disqualify themselves. "If these charges are proven, all these proceedings would be void," he declared...