Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. of Hartford, insurance carrier for the Omaha contracting firm of Peter Kiewit Sons' Co., estimated that it would pay more than $1,000,000 in benefits to survivors. Pending its month-long investigation, the Air Force suspended similar work on other Titan II sites. What caused the disaster, worst in U.S. missile history, was officially a mystery. The likeliest theory is that a diesel generator had somehow switched on in the third level, throwing a spark into the volatile atmosphere where pipe fitters were working on the hydraulic system. Thus the Titan II, deadliest...
...Addams papers. But as the opportunities for original research decrease a complex and rather obliquely stated thesis emerges. In the late 19th century, when most of the early reformers were growing up, the American family as an instrument of repression was almost extinct, leaving the young intellectuals with no firm social structure to rebel against. Perhaps for this reason, perhaps because Jane Addams was not the daughter of an overbearing Breueresque daddy, the Freudian discovery of the inner self did not breed a characteristically European pessimism when it reached these shores, but instead sparked the effort to recover a lost...
Chrysler dealers coming from across the country to Boston Tuesday for a display of 1966 cars will be met by demonstrators protesting the firm's investments in South Africa. Students for a Democratic Society will picket the War Memorial Auditorium, where the cars are being unveiled, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon Tuesday, an SDS spokesman said yesterday...
...Alfred A. Knopf, then 23 and a newcomer to the book-publishing business, was introduced to a Lebanese artist-poet in a Greenwich Village cafe. Knopf had never heard of Kahlil Gibran, but his young publishing firm needed authors, and during the next four years he published three Gibran books; all sold dismally. The Prophet, brought out in 1923, did slightly better...
...Cult. What supports such phenomenal sales? Certainly no effort of Knopf's other than making the book available in three editions,-two of them illustrated by twelve Gibran sketches of idealized nudes. The firm once launched an advertising campaign years ago but hastily canceled it when the only result was to reduce sales. It has not since promoted the book in any way. Who buys The Prophet"? Knopf can only guess. "It must be a cult," he has said, "but I have never met any of its members. I haven't met five people who have read Gibran...