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...such programs which will be set up under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1965, "Upward Bound" was designed to seek out students who would not otherwise consider a college education...
...project--called "Upward Bound"--will bring 50 high school sophomores and juniors to classes at Harvard this summer, with all the privileges of regular summer school students. Tutorials, small group sessions and extensive counselling will continue through the 1966-67 school year...
...grant is $12,000 more than the University requested. A work program that would guarantee every "Upward Bound" student a job and a salary for the duration of the program will probably be established with the extra funds...
Three red signal flares soared upward, bathing the Oder River in a garish crimson. Seconds later, 140 huge antiaircraft searchlights and the lights of hundreds of tanks, trucks and other vehicles flashed on and illuminated the German lines brighter than a midday sun. Then three green flares soared into the heavens, and more than 20,000 guns of all calibers erupted with an earsplitting, earth-shaking roar. The German countryside beyond the Kustrin bridgehead seemed to explode. Entire villages disintegrated. Earth, concrete, steel, bits of trees spewed into the air. The concussion from the thundering guns was so tremendous that...
...dawn of science and the rise of the merchant middle class changed the very meaning of patience. Observing, recording, experimenting-patiently piling their slow-baked bricks of knowledge into steps leading upward toward freedom and control of nature-the pioneers of science began to give patience a positive ring, a means to hope within the here and now. At the same time, the capitalists, gradually replacing the aristocracy at the top of society, were demonstrating what the patient, longview investment and reinvestment of money could do to liberate men from the conditions they were born to. Patience was no longer...