Word: sponsors
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...California, Day declared that he was through with politics, but soon changed his mind. He became a backer of Governor-to-be Edmund ("Pat") Brown, earned an appointment to the finance committee of the Democratic State Central Committee, helped form Democratic Associates, a committee of conservative Democrats who sponsor business-minded candidates for office. Day is articulate and abrupt, an effortlessly efficient manager. No mossback, Day manages to preserve the respect (if not the adoration) of both right and left in California's mixed-up politics...
When the first plans for 20th Century were being drafted conflicting ideas of the program's purpose emerged. reaction to Yale's "Challenge" programs last year, many the 20th Century Week planners wanted to sponsor an sensive series of small seminars that would attempt to fine "the United States' Image Abroad." Others, however, preferred a program that would attract greater , one modelled more closely along the lines of Challenge." The topic, in their view, would still be the , but discussion would include more students and a range of subjects...
...nations, as Elliot Berg (another local peace corps sponsor) has said, need "teachers, not doers," and this is precisely what the University's program would provide--as the individual nation wants them and is willing to pay their salaries. The University's financial participation would probably be limited to indoctrination and travel expenses. Representatives of Western Nigeria and Kenya have expressed interest in the plan on this basis...
...report published last Friday, three Harvard officials proposed that the University sponsor a group of about 12 graduates, who would attend an intensive summer training seminar and go to their Nigerian teaching jobs next fall...
...once turned out social significance with his left hand (as an editor of the Communist New Masses under the name Robert Forsythe) and social insignificance (as an editor of Collier's under his own name) with his other hand; of a heart attack; in New York. A sponsor of literary pink teas during the '30s, Crichton's political sympathies were shattered by the Stalin-Hitler pact. Turning from somber Karl Marxism to zany Marx Brotherism, he biographed Groucho et al, along with other nonpoliticos such as Risë Stevens, Philadelphia Banker Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle (whose career...