Word: foundering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planners do, and one of them presses the points with special urgency. He is Nathaniel Alexander Owings, a latter-day Jeremiah who is also a devout optimist, and who is the senior partner in America's most forceful and prestigious architectural firm. At 65, Owings is the remaining founder, the central O, in S.O.M.?Skidmore, Owings & Merrill...
...Academy has chalked up a better college admittance record than that of Chicago's public high schools. Of the 30 dropouts who were graduated at C.A.M. this spring, 20 will go on to college in September. "When they get here, they are all messed up," says Mary Nelson, founder of the academy. "It takes six months to un-mess them...
Soul Food and Shirts. In Watts and other mostly Negro areas of Los Angeles, "Operation Bootstrap," sponsored by private and corporate donations, operates a dozen storefront schools, giving instruction in such courses as computer programming, Swahili, and microwelding. "We consider everything that goes on here a school," says Co-Founder Lou Smith. Aimed primarily at preparing dropouts for available jobs rather than college, the program helps pay its own way by mining the talents of the students, who have published books on Afro-American history and designed African-style shirts and dresses that were featured at a fashion show...
That, in effect, was the goal set for the company in 1940 by its founder, Architect Richard Pleasant. Since then, however, Ballet Theater has all too frequently strayed off on a series of unrewarding paths. After Pleasant entered the U.S. Army during World War II, the company came under the direction of Impresario Sol Hurok, who attempted to re-create it as a new "Ballet Russe," with an endless parade of show boating guest stars. In the mid-'50s, Ballet Theater embarked on a dreary succession of new dances, most of which were forgotten when the curtain came down...
...once again under some suspicion. The scarcely adequate reason is that Sirhan Sirhan, Robert Kennedy's accused assassin, had asked for and received a copy of the society's most sacred book, The Secret Doctrine. Its author: Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-91), the Russian-born founder and high priestess of the movement...