Word: farsightedness
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Sir: Chuck Percy's critics in Illinois [Sept. 18] accuse him of being too farsighted, with both eyes fixed on the White House; they say his vision of the Illinois gubernatorial seat is blurred. It seems clear to me that one good "term" deserves another. I'd be...
G.E.'s 35,000 Students. Farsighted giants like IBM urge their professional workers to average one graduate-level course a year as long as they work for the corporation. General Electric spends $45 million a year, more than Wellesley's total endowment, to support a curriculum of thousands...
Dallas has more glitter than Houston. As the regional headquarters for scores of national corporations, its offices and light industry stretch for miles in spanking new modernistic structures. Industrial areas have such street names as "Dividend," "Profit," and "Currency." The city spurted when East Texas oilfields came in and farsighted...
Few papers work harder than the Minneapolis Tribune at expanding the boundaries of reader interest. A Tribune suggestion in 1960 caught the eye of Minnesota's U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey, who took it to Washington-where John F. Kennedy put it into effect as the Peace Corps. The Tribune...
Princeton's courtly Physicist Eugene P. Wigner, though his name is not a household word, ranks high among the pioneers who led a nervous world into the age of the atom. In 1939, he was one of the five farsighted scientists* who wrote a letter for Albert Einstein to...