Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever the reasons, the effect of the announcement was to throw the 1958 Maine G.O.P. senatorial race wide open. Old Guard Owen Brewster, 67. who has been angling unsuccessfully for a federal job since 1952, was a possibility-an idea that brought shudders to liberal Republicans. Other possibilities: ex-Governor Horace A. Hildreth, 53, now U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan; University of Maine President Arthur Hauck, 63, a staunch Eisenhower supporter; and Congressman Clifford Mclntire, the only Republican Representative from Maine to be re-elected by a comfortable margin this year (one was defeated, one squeaked through). Whoever gets the nomination...
...young authors, aged 9 and 11, never got beyond Act I of their romantic comedy about Helena and Charles Arnold, the TV repair man. But their neighbor, Humorist H. Allen Smith, got an idea from their brief script...
...including the late Alfred C. Kinsey's work. It brought to the fore the long-neglected element of human satisfactions in modern, assembly-line industry. Finally, and perhaps most important, Gregg and the foundation crusaded to have mental illness treated as a medical problem-a revolutionary idea only a quarter-century...
...suggestion was never seriously contemplated, but it has given rise to a proposal that Harvard cooperate with other colleges in a similar venture. The University is "cautious but interested" in the proposition, the official continued. The idea of a new college was conceived as a means of enabling a large private university to expand without destroying its balance and integration, it was learned...
...suggestion that Harvard establish the new college itself and keep it as a "colony" has been informally discussed in a meeting of the Faculty Committee on Educational Policy. It met first with interested and cheerful enthusiasm, the official said, but discussion of the idea for a new institution has been dropped because the University is now primarily concerned with its mammoth fund drive...