Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Battle of the Bulge in World War II, Taylor earned the sobriquet "Mr. Attack." During the hearings, he proved that he is also a master of cool, impenetrable defense. Under heavy fire from committee members, Taylor, crisply handsome in dark grey suit and TV-blue shirt, held his ground with the grace and sang-froid of a man whose intellect and experience were more than a match for his august adversaries...
...Last year I gave the Government $6,000,000." In fact, Clay, who paid about $338,000 in federal income taxes on fight earnings of $451,000 last year, could hardly keep a B-52 in tires-though he could certainly help do so as an Air Force ground-crewman. Besides, he complained, "I can't understand why they picked me without testing me to see if I'm wiser or worser...
...Rand experts visualize fish herded and raised in offshore pens as cattle are today. Huge fields of kelp and other kinds of seaweed will be tended by undersea "farmers"-frogmen who will live for months at a time in submerged bunkhouses. The protein-rich underseas crop will probably be ground up to produce a dull-tasting cereal that eventually, however, could be regenerated chemically to taste like anything from steak to bourbon. This will provide at least a partial answer to the doomsayers who worry about the prospect of starvation for a burgeoning world population. Actually, the problem could...
Teacher Turns Tutor. The obvious advantage to the financially pressed college is that a relatively small number of teachers can handle many students. Some of the teachers concede that their taped lectures cover more ground and are sharper than their live talks. An art teacher sat down to tape his regular 50-minute class lecture, discovered that, without interruptions and digressions, he was talked out in 20 minutes. Assistant English Professor Elizabeth Ross agrees that she is "much more conscientious" about a taped lecture, finds that the time she gains lets her be "more a tutor than a lecturer...
...Potman's Switch. The bill capped a period of considerable confusion, if not chaos, in Washington over policy toward bank mergers. The problem was that, with merger applications coming in at the rate of 160 a year, the legislative branch and the judiciary were unable to agree on ground rules for approving them. The Manufacturers Hanover move, like other mergers of the time, was cleared with three regulatory agencies, the Federal Reserve, the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The three agencies, following Congressional dictates set down in the bank merger act of 1960, approved...