Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deaths due to pneumonia, often flu-related, rose to 109 during the last week in December-a rise of 65% over the same week in 1966. Bedded down with the flu himself, the city's health commissioner, Dr. Edward O'Rourke, had expected the death toll to reach only 91 for the week. From London last week came reports that an A-2 epidemic had spread from Liverpool to London, playing havoc with Great Britain's labor force and trebling the number of flu and pneumonia deaths during three weeks in December...
...university 20 years ago. Today the State University of New York (known familiarly as S.U.N.Y. and pronounced soonee) is the fastest growing, best-financed and most ambitious system of public higher education in the land. Enrollment has grown from 47,634 in 1960 to 139,149 now, and will reach 290,400 in seven years. In the past six years, New York has spent $1 billion on construction; nearly $2 billion will be spent by 1975. This month, S.U.N.Y. Chancellor Samuel Gould, 57, a low-keyed visionary with a deep conviction that his school is destined for greatness, will...
...nondegree colleges for commuters as well as residents. Each will have its own master and will offer courses and social activities appealing to students of a particular lifestyle. At the moment, 21,735 students are crowded onto Buffalo's old 178-acre campus, and enrollment is expected to reach 41,000 within six years. That is no problem. S.U.N.Y. is about to build an entirely new 1,200-acre campus for Buffalo in suburban Amherst. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill with preliminary plans including a mile-long central building, the project will cost about $600 million...
Using a similar format, Xerox's course in "problem-solving discussion skills" does for bosses what the selling course does for salesmen. "Most managers," says a Xerox staffer, "are not able to face a subordinate, analyze a problem and reach a solution." To the problem-solving course have come 2,000 employees from Ford, 600 from Westinghouse and 300 from Procter & Gamble. Now offering its lessons mainly to production and manufacturing managers, Xerox is working on a variation for marketing types, will introduce something for general corporate executives late this year...
...alone, Wolf could have wound up in a concentration camp. But he went much further. He collaborated with the Florentines in hiding paintings and sculpture, and worked desperately through the church and the German ambassador to keep the city from becoming a military objective, although the battle eventually did reach the city, and much Florentine art and architecture was needlessly destroyed...