Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fallout is not so serious a problem as the immediate radioactivity after a blast. I only wish that Mr. Gruen would accept the book for what it is--advice based on present knowledge. If Mr. Gruen were looking for an analysis aimed at an audience with a higher educational background, he might obtain the McGraw-Hill report "Nuclear Attack and Industrial Survival" which is addressed to many of the same problems as Fallout Protection...
Beginning this year, however, applicants must submit their application forms to the dean of their own college. The dean will indicate whether or not his college will give the student credit in a degree program and will send the forms, together with comments on the student's background and ability, to Harvard...
Because Hays and Gilbert only sing, the whole responsibility for instrumental background falls on Darling and Fred Hellerman. The extraordinary competence of both, particularly Hellerman on the guitar, is a large factor in the cohesion and warmth of the group. Darling sticks to the long-necked banjo most of the time, but switched to guitar for a solo number where he gave a fairly good rendition of some bottle neck blues...
...Chase Manhattan announced that it had arranged to sell off its Chase Manhattan Charge Plan (CMCP) for the value of uncollected customer accounts, now about $9,000,000. The purchaser: New York's newly organized Uni-Serv Corp. Uni-Serv's President Joseph P. Williams, has ideal background for his new job: until 1960 he was a top executive of the solidly profitable, million-member retail charge plan operated by California's Bank of America...
...villa overlooking Lake Neuchâtel, with Mont Blanc gleaming like a picture postcard in the background, a sedentary, stout Swiss just turned 41 lives contentedly with his wife, three children, and a collection of dogs and cats, and turns out some of the most wry and bitter writing of this wry and bitter time. Friedrich Duerrenmatt is best known for his unsettling play The Visit, in which a vengeful old lady manipulates the greed of a whole town to make its respectable citizens collaborate in the ritual murder of her former lover. In The Deadly Game, a traveling salesman...