Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upstaging his seven fellow honorary degree winners, including U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk. But only after he had been handed his Doctor of Letters degree for having given "the greatest pleasure to so many people for so many years'' did British-born Comedian Charlie Chaplin, 73, relax in a toothy grin. "I would have needed a heart of cast iron not to be moved," said he. An exile from the U.S. since 1952 and long a champion of leftist causes, Chaplin chatted amiably with Rusk, but no photographer recorded the event. "The word was," said the Guardian...
This-long a favorite dream of FCC Chairman Newton Minow-should eventually relax the stranglehold of big-time commercial television, making room for dozens of new stations, most of them noncommercial. "If we don't expand television," says Minow, "soon we will have unnecessarily few people deciding what larger and larger numbers of people will be seeing. Without UHF we wouldn't get educational stations into more than a fraction of the communities that want and need them...
When the new Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences becomes installed in his office in University Hall 5, he will have little chance to sit back in the wide leather chair and relax. The Dean ship is a post involving thousands of decisions...
There is much to be done. If one can ever sit back and relax about an educational problem, he cannot do it yet about Gen Ed. But there is room for a feeling of accomplishment. In the words of one professor of long standing, "General Education, for all its defects in execution, aims at a useful goal, and whatever its failings may have been, has had 'successes' which more than counter-balance them, 'successes' of a sort less commonly achieved when Gen Ed was not in existence...
...well. He intends to add synthetics to his cotton cloth output, has expanded his zipper production, and is considering going into electronics. Says Tang: "Diversification is the long-term solution for Hong Kong." To give the island colony time to diversify, however, Tang argues that the U.S. must relax its quotas on Hong Kong Textiles...