Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Birth Boom. What Newsday's readers got was Huxley's pessimistic opinion that his fearful Brave New World is indeed close at hand. It was not until the Year of Our Ford 632 (according to the 1932 novel) that babies were to be grown in laboratories like fungi, happy citizens were to be conditioned by sleep teaching and there was to be no pain, no disease and-theoretically-no independent thought. Now, says Huxley, "The nightmare of total organization . . . has emerged from the safe, remote future." Main factor: the birth boom that has jumped the world...
...Yankees' Whitey Ford tied a National League record by striking out six consecutive batters, Hank Bauer belted two home runs and Mickey Mantle one, as the Yankees shut out Chicago...
...information center to help U.S. schools and colleges-public and private -solve problems in planning, constructing and furnishing their buildings will start operating in July with a $4,500,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. President of the Educational Facilities Laboratories, Inc., announced this week: 48-year-old Harold Gores, superintendent of the top-rated Newton, Mass, schools. The goal, says Gores, is to cut building cost, so that "facilities needed in the decade ahead need not gobble up all the available money for education. The teacher is really much more important than the bricks." The center will give advice...
Under a five-year Ford Foundation grant, these courses were first given last year at Johns Hopkins. In subsequent summers they will be offered at Columbia, Michigan, and finally Princeton, which administers this program...
...Johnny Weissmuller Jr., 17, son of the only Tarzan who could swim 100 yards in 51 seconds without mussing his hair, is in the upcoming movie, Andy Hardy Comes Home. ¶ Pat Wayne, 18, son of Cinemale John Wayne, stars in The Young Land, produced by Patrick Ford, 37, sometime screenwriter and stuntman, son of Director John (Mister Roberts] Ford. ¶ Susan (The Diary of Anne Frank) Strasberg, 20, daughter of Actors' Studio Director Lee Strasberg, has bubbled quickly to the top, co-stars on film with Henry Fonda in Stage Struck, on Broadway with Helen Hayes in Time...