Word: selecting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...recent Fund-sponsored meeting of 50 U.S. educators, foundation officials, and representatives of the U.S. and British governments. Drawing on their views, the Fund urged "a coordinated but not centralized" plan of U.S. aid from both public and private sources. It would focus on Africans "of highest promise," select students "only on merit and in open competition." The winners would be suitably financed for at least their first year in the U.S., get training specifically geared to their needs back home. As for overall supervision, concluded the Fund, "only the United States Government has the resources to finance promptly...
...last week was a request from President Eisenhower to create 40 additional federal judgeships. Because he thought the need urgent, Ike offered to split appointments evenly between parties. In no such hurry, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson answered that there was no time in so short a session to select and confirm new judges. "Most regrettable," rumbled Attorney General William P. Rogers. Johnson, he charged, was ignoring "thousands of Americans who are denied justice because of delay...
...second). Between its fares and the contributions of buffs from Nairobi to New York, the Bluebell Society expects to "preserve puffers for posterity." And with Britain alone scuttling an average of four steam locomotives a day, says Captain Peter Manistry, R.N. (ret.), a charter Bluebell member, "we can select the best steams from everywhere. Why, we'll be unique...
...prediction that the outcome would be decided by noon Monday, five hours before the convention's official opening. "This will come as a great surprise to the delegates," rumbled Johnson. "Most of them thought they were going to Los Angeles to confer with their fellow Democrats to help select the next President." In San Francisco, his last stop before Los Angeles, Johnson noted derisively that Kennedy first-ballot delegate claims had backtracked in three weeks from 710 to 600 votes. "California, here I am," thundered Johnson in his speech to a disappointingly small welcoming crowd at the Los Angeles airport...
...current show was hand-picked from the collections of 75 Yalemen (class of 1895 to the class of 1959) by the director of the Yale Art Gallery, Andrew Carnduff Ritchie. Refusing to select the works from photographs, Ritchie criss-crossed the U.S. to study each suggested entry, had no assistance in making his final choices. Says he: "One eye had to give unity to the show." Ritchie's eye was catholic: among the 150 oils, 68 water-colors and drawings, and 47 pieces of sculpture are works from 17 countries, ranging from the nightmarish quality of Francis Bacon...