Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exploding Space. Portman had to earn his right to what he calls "total creativity" in the hard dollars-and-cents market. Soon after graduating from Georgia Tech's architectural school ('50), he decided: "If I come up with an idea and promote and develop it myself, there won't be any question about who is going to be the architect." His first venture was a new medical building. It gained him the kudos of the medical profession but was a promotional failure. Recalls Portman wryly: "I lost about $7,500, which I didn't have...
...largest of Harvard's three units is the Naval ROTC, with a current enrollment of 133 students. Four-year NROTC students must take three-and-one-half full courses from the Department of Naval Science to earn a commission with the Navy or the Marine Corps. Since all of these courses carry full credit, it is possible to earn more than twenty per cent of the credits required for a Harvard degree in NROTC--this is the highest percentage of any ROTC unit in the Boston area. Harvard's NROTC students, however, only count about one half of these courses...
...probably the least demanding of the ROTC offerings at Harvard, and about 90 per cent of them are carried as fifth courses. The unit uses the modified ROTC curriculum, which has reduced the proportion of purely military subjects by about one-third. Army ROTC cadets, however, can still earn thirteen per cent of the credits for their degrees in the Army courses, as compared to a national average of 10.5 per cent. Only seven Army cadets receive ROTC scholarships...
...present, Yale students can earn 7.5 per cent of their total degree requirements through Army ROTC, or 20 per cent through the Navy program. There is no Air Force unit at Yale...
...ghettos by 1971. On top of that, the National Alliance of Businessmen will seek 200,000 jobs for ghetto youth this summer. Says Alliance Chairman Henry Ford II, chairman of Ford Motor Co.: "Nothing can be plainer than the fact that these people must be given the chance to earn decent lives for themselves. And bringing them into the mainstream of the economy is a goal that can only be accomplished if business grabs the heavy end of the load...