Word: cooperating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although he is now 36, and a mathematician for Sylvania, Paul Cooper has never lost his boyhood enthusiasm for the fanciful science-fiction stories of Jules Verne. While musing about Journey to the Center of the Earth several months ago, Cooper himself took off on a mathematical flight of fancy that more than rivals Verne's most imaginative work. By crisscrossing the earth with subterranean tunnels, the freewheeling mathematician proposes in the current issue of the American Journal of Physics, man could achieve intercontinental travel at ballistic missile speed...
Child Actor. Like Alkan, Lewenthal has known his share of the frustrations of the creative life. Raised in Hollywood by his divorced mother (who was born in Paris just a block away from Alkan's home), he appeared as a bit actor in several Jackie Cooper films, attended a professional school "for spoiled movie brats." At 20, with prize money he won in piano competitions, he went to Manhattan to study with Olga Samaroff Stokowski, Leopold's first wife and a former pupil of Elie's, the fellow with the apes and the cockatoos. After his debut...
...Others in the top ten: 2) Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 3) Mrs. Wyatt Cooper (Gloria Vanderbilt), 4) Mrs. Giancarlo Uzielli (Anne Ford) and Mrs. Stavros Niarchos (Charlotte Ford), paired "because their tastes are identical," 5) Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy, 6) Mrs. Kirk Douglas, 7) Mrs. Angus Ogilvy (Princess Alexandra of Kent), 9) Mrs. Charles Engelhard, 10) Mrs. William McCormick Blair (wife of the U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines...
Until the President puts to use "the leadership powers that are unquestionably his" and submits standards, he has "no good reason" to object to the new committee-action procedure, Maass and Cooper insist...
...criteria exist to guide the Corps of Engineers in planning projects or Congress in reviewing and authorizing them, Maass and Cooper point out. "Since World War II, no President has initiated legislation to establish a consistent set of standards," they complain...