Word: designate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doomed. Kathleen's British husband was killed in combat, and Ethel Kennedy's parents and brother died in plane crashes. What has sustained Rose Kennedy through all this is her Roman Catholic belief and her literal, intense faith in God. She believes that He has a grand design, that people must accept personal tragedy in their lives as part of the eternal mystery...
...work of the city planner is highly technical, complex and occasionally grubby. It is also exciting, full of heady schemes and grandiose concepts. Among the most grandiose are those advanced by Constantinos Apostolos Doxiadis, 56, inventor and prophet of "ekistics," meaning the science of human settlements. His planning and design firms employ more than a thousand people in Athens, Washington and 17 other cities. His smallest projects these days are complete university campuses, his largest embrace thousands of square miles, such as the River Plate Basin Development Program, involving new towns and transportation in five South American countries. A better...
...design for Asia's future, there is no room for heavy-handed American pressures; there is need for subtle encouragement of the kind of Asian initiatives that help bring the design to reality...
Gallery C extended a warm, week-long invitation to ignore this mandate. From Paris, Sculptor Lygia Clark imported two powder-blue space suits of her own design. After a man and a woman entered the suits and Miss Clark sealed the sightless helmets, the occupants found that their only access to each other was through zippered pockets strategically located over the erogenous zones. When the man opened one of her pockets, he felt a hairy male chest rather than a soft female bosom; the woman, in turn, reached out to touch a rubber breast. Somewhat south of these pockets were...
Since then, Nzeru-the word means "wisdom" in the Chichewa language-has produced 35,000 radios of Kroeker's design, and employment has grown to more than 50. In 1968, the company earned about $60,000 on sales of $210,000-a modest sum by Western standards but a considerable feat for an African enterprise. Nzeru has just introduced a portable model that, together with a new radio-phonograph, promises to increase sales...