Word: conception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sort of jet plain Jane that goes by the name of air bus may soon become a hot new piece of airline equipment. The concept-a subsonic job with double the passenger capacity of jets currently flying short-and medium-range runs-has been in the talking stage in both the U.S. and Europe for over two years. Now Lockheed Aircraft Corp. plans a 600-m.p.h., $15.6 million model which, if it draws enough orders, could go into production as early as next spring...
...Teacher's Guide to TIME, new this year, was tested with teachers across the country, who enthusiastically endorsed the concept and content. Prepared by a special staff in consultation with educators, the guide is designed to help teachers integrate the current issue of TIME with the subjects they teach, as well as bridge the gap between today's news and the textbooks by using historical parallels. Issues of the guide will contain sections on vocabulary, news questions, maps, pictures and charts for projection, bibliographies and suggestions for class projects...
...detail. Remaining to be decided, for instance, is the amount of special drawing rights to be created. Best estimate is between $1 billion and $2 billion for a start. Though small in amount, the SDRs should, nevertheless, give the fund's membership an opportunity to test the new concept. If the drawing rights prove effective, they may be expected to be increased. As the Federal Reserve's Martin noted: "Like any new asset it must earn acceptance. You don't make a tree, a tree grows...
Grand Coulee. In Cuba, on the contract that Kaiser always maintained had established his future, his company laid 200 miles of road and built 500 bridges in 41 years instead of the scheduled seven. Later, in what was then a novel concept, Kaiser teamed with five other contracting companies to build Hoover Dam in four years instead of six. The syndicate moved on to work on Bonneville, Shasta and Grand Coulee dams and the piers for the San Francisco Bay Bridge. By the time World War II came and Kaiser went into shipbuilding, he could look back on nearly...
...Episcopalians seem on their way to almost complete rejection of the concept. This is one of the major recommendations in a report made public last week by the church's committee on theological freedom and social responsibilities, which labels the sin "anachronistic" and suggests that ideally it be abandoned except in the historical context "of the radical, creative theological controversies in the early formative years of Christian doctrine...