Word: belled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goldie's name will ring a bell...
About two-thirds of the major U.S. corporations now stake some of their recruits to advanced degrees. Bell Labs, RCA and other companies offer a combination work-study program. The recruit puts in two days a week at the company, studies three days at a nearby university, and collects $6,000 to $10,000 a year. For just taking a temporary job at Hughes Aircraft last summer, Engineering Student Fred Luconi was staked by the company to a fifth year at M.I.T.-with no strings attached...
...optimism, Manifest Destiny, and old-fashioned Emersonian self-reliance. He also praises desultory federal organs like the Area Redevelopment Administration, and the miraculous powers of new teaching techniques. Nowhere, however, does he suggest concrete rules or steps for accommodating men to machines with a minimum of social waste. As bell's enthusiasm is like electricty without a power cable; it leaps and crackles ferociously but accomplishes next to nothing...
...York, three sizable U.S. textile companies canceled contracts with West German suppliers in protest. "Once again, as we did in 1914 and 1933, we warn the world that the German bell tolls again," announced the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A. in full-page newspaper ads. "We believe that the weaknesses and defects latent in the German character once again have begun to show signs of dominating German life...
...warm blobs will find Sound of Music easy to take. Sterner types may resist at the outset, but are apt to loosen up after a buoyant, heels-in-the-air song or two by Julie Andrews. Seconding her perky triumph as Mary Poppins, Julie turns every number into a bell ringer, and gives the comedy its zestiest scene when she punctures her employer's vincible mettle with a few white-hot verbal thrusts. As a footnote to Julie's new success, the film offers a wry bit of casting: one minor character, Sister Sophia, is played by Marni...