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...directors of Harvard's Upward Bound program, pleased by this summer's results, would like to continue the project next year and double its size...
David Swanger, executive director of Upward Bound, said yesterday that the program had achieved important "changes in attitude" about school. "We're not a summer school--those who didn't know algebra when they came probably won't know it now. But they may be more willing to learn...
...residential, I mean something quite different from most Upward Bound pro- grams this year were residential. (Harvard was one of the few commuter projects in the nation.) I don't want to get the students off in dormitories which are separated and isolated. I want the kind of room where they can bring in their friends and their parents, so there can be a lot more interplay between the University and the neighborhoods," Swanger said...
...years old. Her feet, softened in a broth of monkey bones, were compressed in a bandage two inches wide and ten feet long. The four lesser toes were folded back under the sole, and the front of the foot was drawn back toward the heel until the instep collapsed upward into a grotesque ball of bone. The process sometimes required four years to complete, and during all that time the foot suppurated and the girl lived in punishing pain. Sometimes a child died of gangrene or blood poisoning. At last, the foot was reduced to what foot fanciers called...
...result is a world copper shortage and strong upward push on prices. Earlier this year the price rose to a breath taking 98¾? a lb. on the London Metal Exchange, a small-volume speculative market to which users turn when regular sources fail. In April, Chile, unable to resist temptation, broke a producers' agreement that had pegged the price at 42? a lb., went up to 62?. Zambia then decided to sell at L.M.E. prices, now 72?, and Peru-based companies followed suit. Last week Chile again hiked its price, this time...