Word: annually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Routine Case." At a press conference with beaming New York Police Commissioner Michael J. Murphy, Ray Wood explained: "I just tried to do my best." Commissioner Murphy gave Wood an on-the-spot promotion from rookie ($6,325 annual salary) to detective third-grade ($8,126). Next day Murphy was even more impressed by Wood's performance, upped him once more, to detective second-grade ($8,572). Said Murphy: "There was nothing lucky about this case. An undercover man risked his life for months." Mumbled modest Hero Wood: "I thought this was just another routine case...
...miles northeast of the island of Maui, a place where the ocean is three miles deep has been chosen for the $71 million Project Mohole-an attempt to drill three miles through the earth's crust to the underlying mantle. A recent business-sponsored survey projected a possible annual income of $100 million for state firms from oceanic re search...
Philanthropy on that scale is rare in U.S. education (it is one of the largest single-donor gifts any university has received), but general private support of higher education is still rising rapidly. The annual survey of 50 U.S. colleges and universities by New York's John Price Jones Co., professional fund raisers, shows that gifts spurted 11.3% last year over 1963-from $335,456,000 to $373,446,000. Contributions from individuals still provide the biggest single source of such funds (39.3%), but foundation grants are growing (now 33.1%), while bequests (16.9%) and corporations (10.7%) provide the rest...
...Presbyterian church history, the new confession gives the church a specific social mission, committing it to integration, defending interracial marriage, and calling for the preservation of peace and the abolition of poverty. The document is called the Confession of 1967 because even if it is adopted by the 177th annual general assembly in Columbus next May, it will have to be approved by two subsequent assemblies and ratified by two-thirds of the 193 presbyteries...
Died. John Breck Sr., 87, founder and chairman of the biggest U.S. shampoo-maker (15% of the market), a onetime Massachusetts fireman who started mixing chemicals in the early 1900s when his own hair began to thin, built his concoctions into a $28 million annual business with the help of one of the U.S.'s most distinctive ad campaigns, featuring for the past 25 years portraits of silken-haired blondes, most of whom were his own granddaughters and great-granddaughters; of leukemia; in Springfield, Mass...