Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Funk's discovery presaged. Meanwhile, the slender, 5-ft. 6-in. research scientist focused his intense curiosity on other fields. He moved to the U.S. in 1915 to do cancer research at Cornell University Medical College, became a citizen in 1920. In 1923 he returned to Poland as director of the State Institute of Hygiene. Moving to Paris in 1928, he extended man's knowledge of sex hormones...
...come close to creating a multi-skirt-length culture, and it is being opposed as vehemently as it is being cheered. "I hope that adult women will stop trying to look like kids it's a disaster when they do and develop their own look," says Seventeen Fashion Director Rosemary McMurtry. Scolds Society Columnist Suzy Knickerbocker: "The next thing you know they'll be yanking little ones out of the fifth grade, freaking them up in the name of fashion, and throwing them on the magazine covers...
...Rachal, 55, is president, chief executive, general counsel and personnel director of the largest employer in Kerrville, Texas (pop. 11,300). Though he is also controlling stockholder, he draws no salary, receives no dividends, pockets no expense money. Instead, he plows every cent of profit, which he prefers to call "operating surplus," back into his business-aviation. In the space of 13 years, Rachal's little known Mooney Aircraft Inc. has gone from the brink of bankruptcy to become, after Cessna, Piper and Beech, the nation's fourth biggest private-aircraft maker...
...expressive unity, a "total artwork." That phrase could very nearly describe Austrian-born Herbert von Karajan. At 59, Von Karajan not only is the world's foremost conductor but concerns himself with every aspect of his epic productions, including direction, stage design, lighting. Head of the Berlin Philharmonic, director of the Easter and summer festivals at Salzburg, Von Karajan last week added the Metropolitan Opera to his realm by conducting and staging Die Walküre, first item in a new Ring that he will produce at the Met over the next four years. Since certain natural laws prevented...
...gave the museum Seurat's La Grande Jatte, the Art Institute today is the possessor of a 19th century impressionist and postimpressionist collection among the best in the U.S. Under rangy (6 ft. 2 in., 195 Ibs.), Harvard-honed Charles C. Cunningham, 57, who took over as director a year ago after 20 years at Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum, the museum has hewed to a policy of building on its strength (see color pages...