Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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This of course, put the group smack in the midst of an inescapable dilemma. To attract speakers from under-developed land, they would have to promise money for transportation, housing, and sometimes also pay honorariums. To receive the money, they would have to acquire ironclad commitments from each of the...
Without going as far as Fore most of the large Foundations required proof that the program would succeed--more than "something ." As they could present such proof, and as their chief fund raiser persisted in judging foundations to be the only major source support, the committee was final forced to...
By shifting the emphasis of the fund-raising technique, the committee managed to turn $200 into this fall. Instead of banking on the foundations, a few students worked contacting alumni and other interested persons. To the surprise of some committee members--who deemed the success of this approach 'miraculous'--the...
When Foundation support fail to materialize this Fall, the program committee was forced to make a to revision of its plans--to draw up entirely new guest list. On a limit budget, they could not afford to transportation costs to bring from Asia, Africa, and America, as originally planned. The...
This created enormous problem it made scheduling an extremely hazard task. The committee could longer search the world for suitable speakers, as it had intended. The list of potential speakers was limit. They had no guarantee that people who accepted their invitations-- had come to the United States other, more...