Word: brainchild
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...most effective programs is a Planned Parenthood operation in Birmingham, Ala., called Health on Wheels. The brainchild of Planned Parenthood Chairman Tom Bolding, its wheels are those of a Dodge van with its own generator. Equipped with examining table and the latest medical equipment, staffed by a nurse and a doctor who volunteers for a day's duty, the van takes the back
...Courier (circulation: 20,000 a week) was the brainchild of two rights-minded veterans of a summer in Mississippi. The two, former CRIMSON editors Ellen Lake '66 and Peter Cummings '66, envisioned a network of five state-wide weekly newspapers in five Deep South states. But that would have taken $75,000 to get going, and months of letter-writing, phone calls, and collections around Harvard produced only $35,000. They picked Alabama, where civil rights groups were planning massive voter registration campaigns to unseat Gov. George Wallace...
These transformations of the once-staid and uniform Gen Ed A program are the brainchild of Robert J. Kiely, assistant professor of English and director of the course. Last year Kiely himself taught an honors Gen Ed section as a dry-run for courses in writing for special fields. He pronounced the experiment "very very successful" and last spring the Committee on General Education approved the five new courses...
Coach Cooney Weiland's treasured brainchild, "The Dream Line," exploded onto the scene with convincing reality at Brunswick, Maine, last night, scoring five goals to pace a 9-2 rout of Bowdoin. Junior Ben Smith, in his first varsity game at center, scored three goals, while left wing Dennis McCullough and right wing Kent Parrot each tallied once...
Super Magnets. EMS 1 is the brainchild of Westinghouse Mechanical Engineer Stewart Way, a specialist in magnetohydrodynamics. As far back as 1958, he recalls, "I had a hankering to develop an electrical submarine without propellers or jets." But in those days there was one insurmountable problem: to develop a magnetic field strong enough to propel a full-size sub, Way calculated, would require a conventional magnet weighing 500,000 tons-almost 80 times as heavy as an entire Polaris submarine. Working out some method of propelling a small-scale experimental sub seemed a waste of time...