Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...learning, or memory, can indeed be transferred by injecting the brain extract of one animal into the brain of another. But since the tests were difficult to duplicate, the results could never be properly validated. Now a Baylor University scientist, writing in Nature, has reported an experiment that could help resolve the controversy...
...Kustow has his way, the ICA may soon be rocking to the rhythms of pop music. Plans are currently under way to link up with the Beatles' merchandising company, Apple, which would provide financial help to the ICA. In exchange, the ICA would develop shows to be launched at the Mall headquarters, later toured through the Beatles' projected chain of Sgt. Pepper Clubs. "Maybe in this way," Kustow says, "we can break out from being completely dependent on those two old-fashioned kinds of patronage: the private individuals and the government or foundation money givers...
...from the Debris. While they look toward that kind of help, insurance companies plan to continue another phase of their operations in the ghettos. Since last September, when they pledged to divert $1 billion of their annual $16 billion flow of investments toward slum areas, over $350 million has been committed for a total of 26,588 housing units and 7,551 permanent jobs. Among the projects: a $4,500,000 low-income cooperative rising on nine acres of cleared land in debris-strewn Newark, $8,500,000 to construct 530 single-family houses in Chicago, and $15 million...
Such contributions, to be sure, are no giveaway. Housing loans are insured against loss by the Federal Housing Administration, or backed by a state agency, and provide for a 6% annual return. But as slums are renewed with insurance company help, the insurers figure that slum businesses will once more become reasonable risks...
...month Valente introduced his latest design, a fully automatic machine that has three buttons: one for "short," extra-strong coffee, another for "long," slightly weaker coffee, and a third for a continuous flow of coffee to fill a pot. Valente hopes that the variety of the new machine will help to lengthen what he calls the "espresso belt." It now runs through Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and parts of Austria and Germany. The U.S., Valente admits, has so far shown relatively little taste for coffee Italian style. But he is sure the habit is exportable on a larger scale...