Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Glenn, on leave from the board chairmanship of Royal Crown International, retraced Henry Stanley's 1,000-mile trek, from Bagamoyo to Ujiji, in what is now Tanzania. The New York Herald headline hunter took 71 months to reach Missionary David Livingstone in 1871. Glenn made it in 51 weeks by foot, rail and Land-Rover. In the process, his documentary flashed back and forth artfully but not artily between Stanley's diary and line drawings of the day and troubled contemporary Tanzania. Glenn's words were not quite up to his pictures, though. By contrast with...
...Europe, more than a fourth of the delegates were American; mingling with rabbis wearing beards and ankle-length frock coats were clean-shaven men in business suits. Conversation turned on how to preserve religious tradition, but there were also lengthy debates on such present-day problems as how to reach out to the religiously alienated...
...reason for venturing into the afternoon field is the desire to reach a higher-income, "quality" audience that the morning tabloid misses. That would mean putting out a paper much like the one envisioned by the New York Times before it gave up the idea. As one Daily News editor puts it: "The Times's biggest problem was that by aiming at the quality market it was cutting its own throat." The News does not face that dilemma...
Cornell, now 8-1, is probably out of reach, even should Harvard upset the Big Red when they play at Ithaca February...
...Advisory Committee indicated in its 1964 report to the Surgeon General that it "was unable to reach a firm conclusion as to the role smoking plays in causing or precipitating a death from this (coronary heart) disease...