Word: fold
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nearly three decades-the man who kept the academic fireworks safe and sane. Alexander began as a carpenter, switched to teaching math and industrial arts. Twice acting president, he guided five Antioch presidents in more than doubling enrollment (to 1,670) and faculty, and in raising endowment 25-fold. Antioch now has some 800 students off working in 35 states at any one time. A year-round calendar allows them to earn B.A.s in the standard four years; the jobs help them learn more than students at sheltered schools. Alexander's parting hope: that "we continue...
...April, when he organized civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham. Since then, S.C.L.C. has been just about the hottest organization in the civil rights field-much to the discomfiture of other groups. "King," complains the leader of one, "is getting all the money." Yet as an organization, S.C.L.C. would probably fold tomorrow were King to leave...
...magazine he offers full-color, fold-out nudes sandwiched between big-name fiction and big-deal nonfiction. He seems convinced that what Playboy really needs is more sex, not less. "If the secret psyche of the typical young male adult could be probed," wrote Hefner in an apparently endless editorial on "The Playboy Philosophy" that has already been running in serial form for eight months, "we suspect that we probably err in the direction of less emphasis on sex than the average, rather than more...
...circulation supplements were created to serve an almost unmanageably diffuse national audience, and lately they seem to have lost the ability to mix the right formula. After 67 years, Hearst's American Weekly, first of the supplements, is preparing to drop out of its last nine papers and fold in September. This Week (14,270,753 circulation in 43 papers) and Parade (10,950,664 in 69) have suffered advertising losses...
...smoke. The table where the secretary sits might have an altar candle on top of it, and no notes can be taken until the gathering decides whether religion permits the removal of the candle. Often the room grows stuffy, and one can keep cool only by manipulating a fold-out fan which bears a picture of the Saviour on its front cover...