Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Estimates of the amount needed for such a fund, the income from which would provide the Council with its yearly operating expenses, have ranged between...
Dean Watson, with whom the Council leaders discussed their plans Wednesday, suggested that the Dean's office might be able to help the Council financially by sharing the cost of reports or by giving part-time secretarial assistance, but that direct financial aid in any significant amount was unlikely...
...major offices in such states as Minnesota, California and Pennsylvania, Kennedy's Catholicism could still be held against him when kingmakers are looking for winners at convention time. Another danger to Kennedy is the idea that his millionaire father, Boston Financier Joe Kennedy, is willing to spend any amount of money to get him elected-an idea forcefully denied by Kennedy and carefully spread by his opponents ("He's a hell of an attractive fellow," says a Meyner man, "but he's trying to buy the convention"). Also, Hum-phreyites will make it clear to farmers that...
...Corp. (makers of airplane subassemblies) tackled the easy end of the problem: how to get the crew down to earth alive if their vehicle misbehaves on launching or while it is still in the atmosphere. The men will be in the nose of the ship, perched above a vast amount of explosive, corrosive, poisonous fuel. If the first-stage engines misfire, the crew will have to be shot away from the ship "with extreme promptness and at high velocity to a considerable distance." This means that the cabin must be instantly detachable and must have some sort of propulsion...
...sharpest attacks against the program, however, are directed at two of its most vital aspects: whether the Scholars are mature enough to merit the tremendous amount of freedom which is suddenly given them, and whether it is actually worthwhile for bright college seniors to devote an entire year to a project and to preparation for an oral examination...