Word: sponsored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reminder that Southeast Asia receives only $2.50 per capita in foreign aid from all sources (v. $5 for Africa and $6 for Latin America) led the Singapore Straits Times to suggest that "a miniature Asian Marshall Plan" might emerge from the conference. Japan could conceivably be the sponsor...
They voted to distribute "voluntary service cards" across the country, which would commit students to some kind of social service, like the Peace Corps or VISTA. These cards will some day replace draft cards, predicted Sherman B. Chickering, publisher of MODERATOR magazine, sponsor of the conference...
With no choice but to carry out the House's will, Speaker McCormack last week handpicked a committee of five Democrats and four Republicans to investigate Adam Powell. As chairman, he named Democrat Emanuel Celler, a New Yorker like Powell and chief House sponsor of every major civil rights bill since 1957. Manny Celler had at the time of the Powell floor debate denounced the whole investigation as "a kangaroo court." Now he heads...
...Michigan. Shortly before Sputnik, he got Carnegie to sponsor a study that eventually led to the new math. He persuaded James Bryant Conant to undertake his probing look at U.S. education. He sent out three-man "Jeep teams" to investigate Africa because even then he could see that "it was a sleeping giant-in four years everyone would be crying for African experts...
...rooms, and put on display some 8,000 pieces of furniture. Most were familiar. American buying habits have long been traditional and change slowly; Chippendale copies still outsell modern 100 to 1, and buyers with lots of money tend to want the real thing, certified antiques, rather than to sponsor adventurous new designers...