Word: cooperized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stands. Surf songs keep deejays spinning even in Chicago, which is relatively surfless. And from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border, when the word goes out that "surf's up!" whole families go streaming toward the handiest stretch of Pacific shore. "Ninety percent are beginners," broods Bill Cooper, executive secretary of the U.S. Surfing Association. "Half of them give it up in a year or two, but then there are more-and the real danger of surfing is in numbers. One surfer gets knocked off his board, gets hit by another. Most of the injuries are facial and head...
...small but intensely loyal group of art connoisseurs, there are few greater delights, in such a compact package, than the collection of design and fine art which has been maintained for six decades by the Museum for the Arts of Decoration at Manhattan's Cooper Union. Some consider it equaled elsewhere in the world only by London's Victoria and Albert and Paris' Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Now this museum is closed to the public-and suddenly it is the center of a controversy that is stirring the art world far beyond...
There is no argument over the merits of the museum's collection. It grew out of a trust set up by Philanthropist Peter Cooper and approved by the New York State legislature in 1859 for an institution that would not only advance "science, art, philosophy, and letters," but would also form various collections, including "artistic models, books, drawings, pictures and statues." In time, the decorative arts collection grew to 80,000 items, ranging from a 2,300-year-old mitten from China to the world's best collection of medieval fabrics. It has Persian calligraphy, English silver, tapestries...
Charges of Boondoggling. Power men have long dreamed of putting the great "Quoddy" to work. In 1919 a Boston engineer named Dexter Parshall Cooper drew up a plan that would require an estimated $150 million in private capital. That idea collapsed with the 1929 market crash. Then in 1935 Franklin D. Roosevelt-best known summer visitor to neighboring Campobello Island-started boosting the Quoddy and actually got $7,000,000 from Congress to start the project. But F.D.R.'s hopes died too, amid Republican charges of "boondoggling on the Quoddy." Two years ago a U.S.Canadian International Joint Commission completed...
...thanks to new refinements in turbines and the economies of extra-high-voltage transmission, the engineers think the Quoddy's tides can be economically tamed. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall's plan-modeled on Cooper's 44-year-old proposal-calls for 71 miles of dams that will trap and control some 70 billion cu. ft. of sea water that floods into the Quoddy and Cobscook Bays with each tide. At high tide the water will flow into a "high pool" in Quoddy Bay. Then once a day during the period of "peak" power demand (from...