Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spring of 1967, the town high school burned down. Since Glimp's appointment, the Committee has launched an extensive building program which includes the construction of a new four-year high school and the remodeling of the old junior high to form a middle school for grades six, seven, and eight...
...massive interstate highway program launched by the Eisenhower administration has vastly expanded the country's highways in a very short period of time. The long belts of concrete which cut across the western states were the most important development in that part of the country since the completion of the transcontinental railroad a century ago. The highway system was such a universally praised program that its supporters began to think of it as the answer to almost all the nation's ills...
...people most responsible for the early success of the highway program was John A. Volpe, the nation's first Federal Highway Administrator. Today, however, Volpe's responsibilities are much broader than those of his earlier job. Instead of merely concerning himself with the problem of how to build more and better roads he must now weigh the needs of airlines, railroads, urban populations, and a vast range of national problems in making transportation decisions. It was encouraging to hear Mr. Volpe say, in his first press conference as Secretary of Transportation, that "highways alone...
However, the ROTC campaign has shown that the Corporation is not neutral. In fact, the courses which they approve, from the economics department where Marx is a dirty word, to the humanities where art is separated from reality, to the ROTC program which enlists Harvard in the Vietnam war effort, to the riot control course, are hardly neutral. These courses help maintain the status quo of American capitalism and fight those trying to change it. Must we really accept such courses in the name of "freedom," even of "academic freedom" or of "neutrality...
...summer program is to be followed by a similar project from November to March, called the Che Guevara Brigade. Participants in the Brigade will join 450,000 Cuban volunteers, primarily from the cities and schools, in the sugar cane harvest...