Word: drives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since tuition, private gifts and endowment income fail to balance their budgets, U.S. universities increasingly tend to rely on the Federal Government for financial salvation. The current congressional economy drive, which has sharply limited federal support for academic research, has thus created a situation that university officials variously describe as "serious," "desperate" and even "disastrous...
...went to Europe to try his hand and foot at big-time racing. For the next five years, he learned his craft as a member of the Cooper factory team, working his way up to Grand Prix competition. But he always wanted to build as well as drive...
Remembered Sermon. The man who runs this vast ecclesiastical enterprise, appropriately enough, has a faith in capitalism that almost matches his fervent faith in Jesus. The title of the sermon with which he kicked off this year's budget drive was called "God's Business Is Big Business." A spellbinding orator, Criswell was chosen by First Baptist in rather an odd way. A graduate of Baylor University, he happened to be preaching in a small Kentucky backwoods church one Sunday in 1934 when a prominent Baptist layman from Nashville, John L. Hill, was present. Hill never forgot...
...providing a block-by-block profile of any neighborhood in any U.S. city: how many cars are owned there, what makes and vintage, by men or women, of what age. Since Cadillacs use more gasoline than Falcons, and eight-cylinder engines more than six-cylinders, since women do not drive as much as men, it is possible to estimate down to the number of gallons how much premium gasoline a given service station should sell...
...back with its authority, some primitive awe--hence some creative clue to the rages of the deep--was left to brood about. Onanism and homosexuality were not, to Mailer, light vices--to him it sometimes seemed that much of life and most of society were designed precisely to drive men deep into onanism and homosexuality; one defied such a fate by sweeping up the psychic profit which derived from the existential assertion of yourself--which was a way of saying that nobody was born a man; you earned manhood provided you were good enough; bold enough...