Word: chunking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Walter Beinecke Jr., 50, heir to a sizable chunk of his family's Sperry & Hutchison Green Stamp fortune and a successful real estate developer and cattle rancher in his own right, thinks he has a solution for old Nantucket's people problems. Beinecke's idea is to "trade up" the island by finding fewer people who will spend more money. "Instead of selling six postcards and two hot dogs," he says, "you have to sell a hotel room and a couple of sports coats...
...personality-his reticence, precision, haughtiness-met De Gaulle's criteria of the attributes of a man of quality. The story goes that on a visit to Paris as Soviet Premier, Nikita Khrushchev boasted about his Foreign Minister, saying, "I can order Gromyko to sit on a chunk of ice and he stays there until the ice has melted." Replied De Gaulle: "I can order Couve to sit on a chunk of ice, and it won't even begin to melt...
...large chunk of men had left Cambridge in September. In January, most were scheduled to graduate. This time, there were Commencement exercises, shortened though they were. Saturday, January 9, 1943, was Class Day. The Senior Super was held that night. On Sunday President Conant delivered a Valedictory address, paying tribute to those about to leave for war. Before that freezing Sunday in Massachusetts' mid-winter, Harvard's Class of 1943 numbered 525 remaining members; afterwards, 149 stayed in Cambridge, some of them deferred, some in ROTC and Enlisted Reserve units that hadn't yet been called to active duty...
There is a definite role that the Student-Faculty Advisory Council can and should play at Harvard. A representative body of students and faculty members adds an important facet to the organizational structure of the community. It is unfortunate the Council had to spend such a large chunk of its first year formulating a policy on what was really a dead issue. SFAC should proceed to other important matters...
Peace quickly became a rosy success. During the war, the Meillands had barely managed to hang on to a remnant of their rose-growing business near Lyon. Now, with royalties pouring in from the U.S., they were able to buy a chunk of expensive land on the Riviera and make a fresh start. In less than a decade, the Peace rose was blossoming on some 30 million bushes throughout the world. "How strange to think," wrote Francis Meilland in his diary, "that all these millions of rosebushes sprang from a tiny seed no bigger than the head...