Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough, a glance back over the record of previous directors would sober the most sanguine candidate. In 1964, Herbert von Karajan quit in a huff over "bureaucratic interference." Karl Boehm was virtually booed out of the job in 1956. The strain of it all gave Herbert Strohm a nervous breakdown in 1941. As fine a conductor as Felix Weingartner lasted only 20 months in 1935-36-and that was his second fling at the job. Even the demonic Gustav Mahler, who gave the house a decade of discipline and creativity from 1897 to 1907, left with his health broken...
...advance carried the New York Stock Exchange index of all issues traded on the Big Board to a record high of 54.26, up .87 for the week. "The only thing capable of reversing the prevailing psychology," says Analyst Robert T. Allen of Shearson, Hammill & Co., "is a complete breakdown in peace negotiations." A Dean Witter & Co. report reflected a widely held Wall Street sentiment: "A truly fundamental change has taken place in the investment outlook. Resolving the Vietnamese conflict would free the U.S. to attack domestic problems deferred too long-and will create great demands...
...said that yesterday's meeting was successful. "It was beneficial to all of us," Gardiner said, "and it was friendly and worthwhile." Stewart W. Kemp '69, one of the five students at the meeting, said that the administrators were "very cooperative," and that the previous conflict "was just a breakdown in communication...
...precise breakdown of the new class by test scores, secondary schools, and geographical distribution has not yet been made. But in "overall terms," one official said, the class of '72 is the brightest yet at Harvard. "There are more 800's than ever before...
...problems, and indeed, outline more specific proposals for getting the United States out of Vietnam. The recent departure of his two chief press aides, complaining that McCarthy was not addressing all the issues, along with the impending defection of advisor-speechwriter Richard Goodwin hint at the beginning of the breakdown of that rare but genial coalition of fairly radical anti-war students, ADA liberals, and Texophobes who had joined to support McCarthy in New Hampshire...