Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hogan's Goat moves to a bigger house. Professor Alfred announces that he will take a sabbatical next year to work on a couple of other plays. The federal government gives the Graduate School of Design $2 million for a new building. The Harvard Undergraduate Council suggests that non-Faculty members be made Masters. When it and the Harvard Policy Committee hold a referendum on retaining the present form of student government, the 40 per cent of Harvard that bothers to vote gives the present form an 87 per cent vote of confidence...
Artists are always busy expanding the domain of art. After all, that gives them more room to play in. This past season, the frontiers, like those of Alice's Wonderland, grew bigger and madder until it seemed that art was that which looked least like art. Andy Warhol, in an effort to blow new life into pop, floated 25 silver pillows filled with helium in a gallery. Claes Oldenberg, whose realm is the bathroom, went limp, turned out washbasins and soft toilets made of stuffed vinyl...
...Chase Hobos. Menk is a railroader's son who began 30 years ago as a telegrapher, rose to head the Frisco line and become the most sought-after executive in the industry. He was recruited for the Burlington with a bigger job in mind: the railroad's stock is 97% owned by the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern and, in a merger that the ICC unexpectedly turned down last month, he was slated to become operating head of the three roads. With the merger outlook now cloudy, he is concentrating on bettering the Burlington. Among the measures...
...that during the second ten days of May their companies' sales had gone up from the month's first ten days. That sounded pretty good. And to add to the air of confidence, Ford executives appeared before members of the Financial Analysts Federation in Manhattan and predicted bigger and better things in the future. By 1975, they said, the "normal level" for annual auto sales should run about 11.5 million cars, far above the record-breaking 9.3 million of last year. Predicted one Ford official: "At constant car prices, dollar sales of new cars will increase...
...Continental, Eastern and American Airlines. Though the U.S. SST does not yet have a builder-Washington will decide between Boeing and Lockheed by year's end-and will not be in service until 1974, 22 airlines have plunked down $9.6 million in deposits for 96 bigger (250 passengers) and faster (1,850 m.p.h.) American supersonics...