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...cards are the brainchild of Bernard L. Boutin, an executive at Sanders Associates, a large New Hampshire-based firm. Boutin joined Sanders early last summer when he resigned the directorship of the Small Business Administration in Washington. Sanders, one of New Hampshire's largest firms, depends on government defense contracts for most of its business...
...Cleveland offered hot lunches to its students. Now all secondary schools do, and last month the city became the first in the nation to offer free breakfasts, to 14,000 children in elementary schools. The milk-and-cereal program-which has dramatically cut down on absenteeism-is the brainchild of Superintendent Paul Warren Briggs, 55, who is steadily changing an ailing public-school system into a healthy...
...stands. Spectators can figure on walking shorter distances, sitting in living-room comfort and enjoying a better view of the action than ever before. Latest proof is the 19,000-seat Forum in suburban Inglewood, Calif., ten miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles. The $16.5 million Forum is the brainchild of Millionaire Sportsman Jack Kent Cooke, 55, who decided to put up a new home for his Los Angeles Lakers pro basketball team and his new Los Angeles Kings hockey team. In fact, Cooke only won the franchise for the Kings by audaciously promising to have the arena finished...
...brainchild of Engineers Victor F. Zackay and Earl R. Parker, the new alloy is called TRIP (for transformation-induced plasticity) steel. In effect, it can be stretched like Silly Putty or molten glass 2½ to 4½ times as far as present-day high-strength steel without fracturing its molecular structure. More important, when TRIP steel eventually reaches the point of crack-inducing stress, a solid-state chemical reaction is triggered that blunts small cracks just as they begin, then fills them in to prevent major wounds. The chemical change precipitating this "self-healing" process takes place...
...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...