Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rich Man's Game. Court tennis in the U.S. is restricted largely to the wealthy. There are just seven courts in the whole country, only one private one-built by Payne Whitney in 1915 on his Long Island estate at an estimated cost of $250,000. But its adherents find court tennis endlessly fascinating, and in the last five years the game has experienced something of a revival, as Harvard, Yale and Princeton organized teams...
...project, announced last week, is the joint venture of the U.S. Government, big business and private philanthropy. The Navy will donate the Consolation,* American President Lines will operate her at cost, and the People-to-People Health Foundation will raise the cash (estimated annual bill: $3,500,000), sign on a permanent staff (some 15 doctors, 20 nurses), and a rotating staff of 35 doctors taken largely from U.S. medical schools. Called HOPE ("health opportunity for people everywhere"), the project is already swamped with applications from doctors bidding for the slots that range from dermatology to psychiatry...
...year to an estimated $7 billion. Operating on the Wayne Parrish rule that each $1 billion industry segment deserves its own publication. Bergaust decided that "the business is big enough for us all." This week he will offer a five-day-a-week industry newsletter called Space Business Daily (cost: $125 a year). Later he expects to launch other publications in the field of space-age ground support, electronics and propulsion...
...committee recommended a program of financial aid to universities to enable them to set up oceanographic departments, fellowships for research students, the construction of a vast array of research equipment ranging from special laboratory ships to stable floating research platforms. Cost: $58,360,000 in 1960, $651,410,000 over the next ten years...
Boss for the Boss. Kappel lives modestly for a man of his position and salary ($200,000 a year). He dresses conservatively, usually in blue serge suits. His modest four-bedroom house in Bronxville, N.Y. is distinguished only by its six telephones, which cost him nothing. He and his wife, a University of Minnesota girl, have two daughters. An elder of the Dutch Reformed Church, Kappel does not smoke, drinks rarely-but can play shirtsleeve poker (a quarter a raise) with the best...