Word: boom
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...most dramatic has been, simply, in numbers. When Glimp became dean, the office was handling about 5000 applications; this year, it has gotten more than 7000. The rise in application, initially, had something to do with the post-war "baby boom," but, even though those babies are now upperclassmen, the rise continues. Glimp has only one explanation that links the rise to Harvard as an institution--that President Kennedy identified Harvard with "public service," especially in the minds of young people. It is true that "public service" is something an increasing number write about on their application...
...reporter's curious eye?made Luce a formidable practicing journalist. His questions about President Kennedy's reading speed, asked of the President himself and his relatives, produced the article in LIFE that revealed that the President liked to read Ian Fleming, and thus launched the James Bond boom in the U.S. He also traveled out of his way some years ago to hear and talk with an obscure young North Carolina preacher named Billy Graham, then gave him his first national exposure in LIFE. Present in Cairo when the Naguib regime was under siege by Nasser, Luce rushed out into...
...Boom. The prime force in Korea's resurgence is President Park, the taciturn ex-army general who seized power in a 1961 coup, then went public two years later and held elections, squeezing into office by 156,000 votes, out of 11 million cast (in a population of 27 million). Going to work on the country's feeble economy, Park devalued Korea's inflated currency, lured new investment with tax concessions and low-wage labor and started a five-year development plan. To help pay the bills, Park even ignored virulent anti-Japanese feelings in Korea...
...developer who, with his four brothers, anticipated the transformation of Manhattan's Park Avenue from a high-income residential address to an ideal office-building location with construction of the Universal Pictures Building in 1947, then cashed in ($156 million assets last year) on the high-rise building boom across the U.S.; of a disease of the nervous system; in Manhattan...
...comes from expanding businesses already on the scene, notably the headquarters of 26% of the nation's 500 largest corporations. In fact, Mayor Lindsay insisted that the city, with some 8,000,000 sq. ft. of office space due to be completed this year, is still amidst "a boom in corporate growth...