Word: build
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...setup is this: we're selling 600 memberships at $25,000 apiece. That's 15 million bucks, which is what it will take to build the golf course. Anybody can join-white, Negro, Catholic, Jew, Italian. What we're looking for is young people on the go, not just actors but doctors, lawyers, people from every walk of life. I got nothing against old people, but they just don't make for a lively atmosphere at a golf club." He isn't kidding. The mountains above Beverly Hills are being graded, and when...
...American Stock Exchange (TIME, July 22), on a study of education policies and programs. A student committee on university development offers advice on campus construction plans. Wesleyan undergraduates also rate their professors. And their voices are not ignored: when Senior Dave Eger objected to administration plans to build a hockey rink before erecting a needed gymnasium, he rounded up 546 students' signatures on a petition. Thanks to his protest, the plans are being reconsidered...
...military-hardware order that had been proclaimed the richest in U.S. history, the F-111 fighter-bomber project seemed likely to set more records for hot controversy than cold cash. Air Force and Navy brass bridled at Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's 1961 decision to build a single all-purpose TFX, as it was then called, for both services. When General Dynamics Corp.'s design got the nod over Boeing's, the bickering grew louder-and helped ease the Chief of Naval Operations out of his job. Congress, too, filled the air with investigations over what critics...
...sales climbed to an estimated $94 million in the company's latest fiscal year and profits rose to an estimated $3,900,000. Levitt figures that his firm has built 75,000 houses worth $1.1 billion, including 4,300 last year. This year he expects to build another 5,200. "The job gets easier as we get larger," says Levitt. "There are no brains in this business. Once the management problem is solved, you can do almost anything...
...eliminate 10 lbs. to 500 lbs. from from the weight of aircraft and space space vehicles. Built-in SIAs will also eventually eliminate the conspicuous whip antennas on military radios and their civilian counterparts. And when the mini-antennas are mass-produced, Turner says, manufacturers will be able to build build them inside TV sets at a cost of only $2 or $3 apiece, eliminating familiar "rabbit ears" and costly, unesthetic roof antennas...