Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ideas. Among those in the hard-planning stage: doubling Chile's 630,000-ton annual copper production in six years, vastly expanding the hesitant land reform program begun by his predecessor Jorge Alessandri, building such resources as pulp-yielding trees and the fishing potential of Chile's endless coastline. To help him, the new president has put together one of Latin America's most competent cabinets, drawing men from the top ranks of the professions, business, labor and government...
...President Matthew J. Culligan, the company has been looking everywhere for a new boss. The directors hired Boyden Associates, a management consulting firm, to help in the search, and the names of outsiders reportedly under consideration got an almost daily workout in the New York press. The list seemed endless: McCall's Publisher A. Edward Miller, former Oil Company Executive Raymond D. McGranahan, former FCC Chairman Newton Minow, and Shelton Fisher, McGraw-Hill publication division president. Then last week the Curtis board of directors announced that its search had ended at last. The man had been found right...
...radio interview, he stared constantly at the table or his cigarette or gently rubbed his eyebrows, and only rarely looked at his interviewers. Later when he addressed a larger group, he appeared at ease--but never excited, never given to rhetorical flourishes. At times, as he answered the endless questions about the future of Republicanism, he seemed a tolerant New England prep school headmaster-patiently explaining what he had explained so many times before...
...preserve our segregation laws and traditions." Armed with tight control over their calendars, certain Southern district judges have delayed civil rights cases for months and years, played cat and mouse with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and mocked the Supreme Court. Where possible, they remand cases for endless adjudication by state courts. When reversed, they take back the same case and start all over. Little can be done short of impeachment-a tactic successfully used only four times since...
...called a raga, a series of notes on which the musician improvises. There are thousands of ragas, each conveying a specific mood-joy, eroticism, loneliness, etc. Says Saxophonist Shank: "Everybody says how free our music is, but in comparison with Indian music we are terrifically restricted. It's endless what a musician like Ravi can do." Transported. Shankar began as a dancer with the famed Indian troupe headed by his brother, Uday Shankar. At 18, he disposed of all his worldly possessions and settled in a remote village to study the devilishly difficult sitar with a guru. He practiced...