Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trumpeted by some of the candidates. But he saw no point in taking his protest to the picket lines. He did not stage a sit-in, or even dream of holding a faculty member hostage. Instead, as this year's election approached, he came to TIME with an idea. Why not find out what the students really think...
...gratias for Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle of Washington. As a Catholic, I am greatly excited about the idea of one of our prelates halting his building programs in order to use the funds to alleviate the immediate problems of the poor. For too long the ludicrous situation has existed where the poor have trudged from country hovels and slum cellars to worship in million-dollar edifices of stone, marble and gold leaf...
...Norman E. Shumway Jr. The victim of three heart attacks within seven years, Rizor had been longing for a transplant since he heard of Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard's first operation in Cape Town last December. "At first," says his wife Eileen, "I was shocked by the idea. But time and the knowledge of how desperately my husband wanted the operation made me realize that it might be his only chance to live." When a brain-injured donor, a man of 43, died in Stanford Medical Center, Shumway implanted the heart in a 41-hour operation. (The donor...
Grooming a Winner. The idea for the Carmen Curler started rolling when a strapping 34-year-old Dane named Arne Bybjerg Pedersen answered a newspaper ad in 1962: a hairdresser was looking for a partner to help develop a new-style curler. Bybjerg, a former plantation manager in Malaysia, invested $5,500 and lost it all. But he kept his faith and teamed up with a Copenhagen engineer who offered his know-how and a basement workshop for experiments. The pair ran up $200,000 in debts before the Carmen Curler was perfected. A first order from Britain...
Three principles underlie this traditional approach to school problems. Abstracted, the attitudes come close to defining Harvard's traditional idea of itself...