Word: bushed
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...unique cross between a private foundation and a federal agency, N.S.F. goes back to 1944. when President Roosevelt asked Physicist Vannevar Bush how to muster the nation's wartime inventiveness for "a fuller and more fruitful life" after the war. Bush, who headed the showcase Office of Scientific Research and Development during the war, recommended a federal foundation with a dual function: to set national science policy and nurture neglected basic research. Set up in 1950 as an independent agency within the executive branch, N.S.F. is governed by the 24-member National Science Board, appointed by the President...
...afternoon with the loss of only one other set. At number two. Vic Niederhoffer smothered Joe Paschow 6-1, 6-0. Except for Keith Martin, all of the Crimson's other singles were in straight sets. Martin, at number six, was briefly extended in downing opponent Steve Bush...
Like a dead bush...
David Cole's "The King's Child, the King's Child, Ah!", a short play in four scenes, is a delightful piece of self-indulgence on Cole's part. Cole is a junior, whose play "How I Worked It With the Bush" displayed the same kind of wit and competence as this new play, an elaborate piece of buffoonery about a King Midas who is granted his wish. "How I Worked It With the Bush," though, was a more controlled piece of comedy...
Adding It Up. In New England, Republicans should hold their own in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine: > Connecticut Democrats are bringing Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff back to run for the Senate against Incumbent Republican Prescott Bush. They hope that Ribicoff can carry with him Democratic Governor John Dempsey (four of the state's top Republicans are fighting for the right to run against Dempsey...