Word: v
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Latin American governments have not complained particularly about the sales - after all, that might not be diplomatic. But the U.S. is anxious to improve its image abroad. From now on all car sales become the responsibility of the ambassador, and the difference between cost v. market price will go to local charities or U.S.-sponsored activities-to be chosen by the ambassador. Moaned one staffer in the U.S. embassy in Buenos Aires last week: "The collective loss to the people in this room will be $250,000. What's worse, we don't even get to choose...
...finger accusingly or tenderly, staring with his soul, he speaks with a voice that could develop only from the harried heckled experience of Socialist Party campaigns from 1928 through 1948. Chuckling he reminisces about the exploits of one after another of his "old friends" in politics--from Eugene V. Debs to Hucy Long to Hubert Humphrey...
...Faculty has answered all but two of the six guideline questions posed three weeks ago by the Committee on Educational Policy. After these two votes the Faculty will discuss Chapters IV and V of the Doty Report and send the whole matter back to the CEP, which will incorporate the Faculty's suggestions in a new Gen Ed program...
...discussion today gets as far as Chapter V of the Doty Report, the most controversial proposal is likely to be that Faculty members should be given incentives for teaching in Gen Ed rather than departmental courses, Dean Ford predicted...
...month for research on the SST, about 75% of it Government funds. Work on the drawing boards and in the wind tunnels has produced important design improvements in both the SST's airframe (for which Boeing and Lockheed are competing) and engines (General Electric v. Pratt & Whitney). The airframe makers have discovered that a relatively small reduction in airframe weight produces a disproportionately larger increase in payload; a 1% reduction, for example, would increase the payload by 10%. National Aeronautics and Space Administration research has given increased hope for solving the problems of sonic boom. And estimates...