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...McDougal was the kind of go-go entrepreneur that likes to befriend politicians but that politicians sometimes later regret ever having met. His friendship with fellow Arkansan Bill Clinton began in the late 1960s, when both were young staffers for Senator William Fulbright. In 1978 Bill and Hillary joined McDougal and his wife Susan in a real estate venture. A year later, Clinton became Governor and appointed McDougal his economic-development adviser. By the early 1980s, McDougal had left government work to make his fortune: he converted Madison Guaranty, a tiny institution, into one of the largest savings and loan...
Students said they enjoyed the lecture, whichis funded semi-annually by Warburg Professor ofEconomics Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith andCatherine A. Galbraith in memory of Rama Mehta, afellow at the Bunting Institute in the 1960s...
...museum attempts to recreate the experienceof Kennedy's presidential nomination, campaign andadministration. President Kennedy is heardthroughout the new museum in three theaters and 20video presentations. Twenty-five new exhibitsdetail the sights and sounds of the early 1960s...
...think it's a heavy component of hype," says Bruce C. Atwood, who began TM with his wife in the early 1960s...
What's making solar energy so hot? For one thing, the technology is getting better and cheaper. The price of the photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight to electricity has fallen precipitously from $500 a watt in the 1960s to about $4 today. Companies are now rushing to break the $2 barrier, which would reduce the residential cost of solar electricity from 30 cents per kWh to near the 12 cents average price of electricity in California. Leading contestants in the scramble are Texas Instruments and Southern California Edison, which have joined forces to produce flexible solar panels from inexpensive...