Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strong as "50 acres of horseradish." Other Congressmen are appalled at the possible result: the Wallace phenomenon may throw the election into the House of Representatives. The outcome could foil most voters' wishes and upset the two-party system in Congress. To House Majority Whip Hale Boggs, "the idea is absolute anarchy...
...says it is, critics have been wondering where the brush would strike next. The instrument they had to fear was the shovel. In Manhattan's Dwan Gallery, the newest frontier is called "Earthworks," and the ingredients on display include dirt, worms, rocks, photographs and written descriptions. "Our original idea," explains the gallery's earth mother, Virginia Dwan, "was just to show earth as a medium, but it's difficult to know where to draw the line...
...Robert Morris, on the other hand, used the gallery as a site on which to build an earthwork out of 1,200 pounds of dirt and peat moss, trimmed with a four-foot cascade of jellied industrial grease, pipes and wire, and giant pieces of felt. "I have no idea what it will look like," he said, resting on his shovel while the work was in progress. "But it seems old-fashioned to me to start controlling qualities. This earth is all part of moving out into the world...
...market, about 4,000,000 of the $1.29 toys have been sold. The reason cannot be novelty: a similar toy enjoyed brief popularity four years ago. Robert Asch, president of Twinpak Ltd. of Montreal, which makes the Footsee, is sure the game is far older; he got the idea while watching Arab children in Jerusalem playing with like contraptions...
Despite U.S. objections that this would put a floor under the free-market price and thus reward speculators against the dollar, the idea has gradually won strong backing among European bankers. Many worry that the value of their own hefty gold stocks would be lowered if the free-market price should slip below the official price. The larger South Africa's gold pile grows, the more nervous the bankers get, fearful that the great golden overhang might somehow cause the free-market price to collapse. Some see South African sales to the IMF as a clever...