Word: program
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Henry said that if colleges in this country can agree on certain procedures in the admission of foreign students, the program might be expanded to include more colleges and more countries. "Colleges will be more willing to offer financial aid if they are confident about the students' qualifications," he concluded...
...Needled by Jack Kennedy's challenge to come out and fight in the primary elections, Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington promised, on a TV program, to "take my campaign into the homes, to the street corners and to the farms"-indeed, almost everywhere except to the primary ballot boxes. Symington also plans to advance his candidacy at a series of high-caloric political banquets, starting with a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Springfield, Mo., with Pennsylvania's Governor David Lawrence as the featured speaker, and a testimonial dinner in St. Louis on Feb. 20, with Harry...
...more than a year, a steady stream of Soviet aid and military equipment poured into Iraq. But even in aid, Iraq has proved stubborn. It has stayed clear of nationalizing the profitable oil industry, whose exports last year rose to a record 39 million tons. The vaunted land-reform program has not touched the huge plantations that each year give Iraq the world's largest date crop. And last week, as a result of old-fashioned consumer resistance, Iraq ended a year-long attempt to direct trade toward the Communist bloc by once again allowing Western automobiles to come...
...York Yachtsman Harold S. Vanderbilt gave $2,500,000 to the Program for Harvard College, just in time to enable the monumental three-year campaign to top its goal with total pledges of $82,697,470, plus a $5,000,000 dividend of interest and appreciation already earned by Program money in the bank. Explained onetime Harvardman ('07) Vanderbilt: "This drive has acquired an almost romantic appeal for the many who love Harvard...
...proposed allowance for a Behavioral Sciences Center in the Program for Harvard College was originally $4,000,000. White said that about $2,000,000 would probably go into the construction, while the remainder might take the form of an endowment to be used for maintenance...