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...professional man of the world. Chairman of the great Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he is widely traveled, points with vast pride to the Oxford degree that he won as a Rhodes scholar, is father of the scholarship plan that bears his name and has enabled 24,000 Americans to widen their horizons in studies abroad...
First estimate of the temperature of the water in which Mitchell was continually bathed was 31 degrees. Rescue workers said it would probably take them two days to widen the chasm so the Mitchell's body can be removed...
...more political skill than before. His ragtag army is supplied with arms, munitions and money (heavy Maria Theresa thalers shipped in by camel caravan) from Saudi Arabia and British-administered South Arabia, neither of which wants Nasser as a near neighbor. The royalist radio last week skillfully tried to widen the split in republican ranks by promising amnesty to all nonroyalists once the Egyptians were withdrawn. Further, Imam Badr promised the people of Yemen a new form of government: "a constitutionally democratic system" ruled by a "national assembly elected by the people of Yemen a new form of government...
...Senator Goldwater agrees, the national chairman must have this broad support-not unanimity, but a majority of one is not enough." Ike's version: "We all agreed that there has to be some clearing away of the underbrush to make it possible through a democratic process to widen the core of the party and of the leadership...
Since many of the pupils have never been more than a few blocks from home, the teachers take them to parks, the airport, construction sites and libraries, and thus widen their narrow world. Many kids found animals at the zoo to be incomprehensible, and it took photographs, film strips and much patient explanation before they understood what they saw, and learned to talk about it. An orange becomes a textbook for children who never touched or saw an orange before: it teaches the meaning of "rough" and "round...