Word: designate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle's reform bills through the National Assembly. Unwittingly, Pompidou hastened his own exit by engineering an election landslide. After the first round of voting indicated that the Gaullists would win handsomely, the general sounded out Pompidou about his future plans. Pompidou played into De Gaulle's design by confessing his extreme exhaustion and his understand able desire to take a long vacation...
...raving lunatic, and in fact his provisions were ruled invalid in law. An appeal from the court's decision elicited a compromise agreement from the three residuary legatees, and a public competition was announced. Of the 467 entries, four were judged worthy of sharing the prize money. The design finally adopted, however--an ingeniously logical and space-saving system of 48 characters--was largely that of Kingsley Read. And the bi-alphabetic edition of Androcles was duly published in 1962. Whether the Shaw Alphabet achieves widespread use remains to be seen...
President Pusey also announced that Jose Luis Sert, retiring dean of the Graduate School of Architecture and Design, will be the architect for the structure, working through his private firm of Sert, Jackson and Associates, which also designed Holyoke Center and Peabody Terrace. Sert has not yet announced plans for the design of the Science Center...
...limited warfare. Not only is it more agile than most tanks, say the engineers, but it can also press on even if one engine fails or several tires are punctured. Lockheed recently negotiated a $3,000,000 contract with the Pentagon for the production of test vehicles. Though their design is military, Twisters might eventually be used by construction men, explorers, or any other civilians who have the urge and the money for a remarkable ride across roller-coaster terrain...
...Juilliard School of Music, Boston's New England Conservatory and the University of Wisconsin. He publishes a magazine (The Bass Sound Post) and organizes annual conferences for the 1,000-member International Institute for the String Bass, which he founded and heads. He champions improvements in bass design: his own custom-made instrument has, among other features, a special thick-bellied shape for resonance and carrying power and an unusually close spacing between the strings and fingerboard for easier fingering. He has his own method of drawing the bow more slowly across the strings to achieve a "rich, passionate...