Word: brainchild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Musikriter is the brainchild of a short (4 ft. 9 in.), roly-poly, fortyish divorcee named Lily Pavey, who had only a year and a half of formal schooling. A former circus clown who could play 17 different musical instruments, she has spent the past 14 years developing her invention in a cluttered flat in South London. She hit on the idea one day while working as an invoice clerk to support her family. To relieve the boredom of the job, she took to singing while she typed and was suddenly seized by the thought: "How much more interesting...
...input-output tables are the brainchild of Harvard Professor Wassily W. Leontief, whose work persuaded the Government to begin the preparation of such tables in the late 1940s. Fearing that the system would prove a wedge for Government regulation of the entire economy, a group of businessmen led by General Motors Economist Stephen DuBrul in 1953 persuaded Defense Secretary Charles ("Engine Charlie") Wilson to halt work on it. But the work got under way again in 1959 after Professor Raymond Goldsmith of Yale urged the Government to push ahead, and business fears of the tables have turned to open-armed...
Into the Honey Pot. The most ambitious project of all is the threeyear, $110 million HARYOU-ACT* program, partly supported with federal funds. It is the brainchild of Kenneth Clark, 50, a City College professor whose brief on the effects of discrimination helped shape the Supreme Court's 1954 school desegregation decision. It envisions a network of community councils and organizations dedicated to fighting poverty and helping the ghetto's youngsters by setting up half a dozen businesses that will be run by some 3,000 teenagers, after-school study centers for those with nowhere...
Deep & Level. The Miami-to-Nassau race is practically a Bertram monopoly. Bertram won it with Moppie in 1960, the first year he ever entered, and his boats have won it each year since. Key to his success is the unique hull design of his boats, brainchild of famed Boston Naval Architect Ray Hunt. Most powerboats are sharply V'd at the bow, but the hull flattens out to provide a smooth "planing" surface near the stern. In the Bertrams, the "deep V" runs all the way aft to the transom, and the smooth sides of their hulls...
...Antonio started making Point of Order in 1960. The film was the brainchild of Daniel Talbot, owner of the New Yorker Theatre, but it was de Antonio who edited it and organized it into its present form. At first the two men, neither of whom had ever made a film before, hired an experienced German editor to do the cutting. "He was a real Stalinist type," de Antonio recalls. "He wanted to open the movie with the American flag waving in front of a Vermont church and end it with McCarthy's funeral. In between scenes he wanted film clips...