Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freshman lounge would be open until 2 a.m. every night, offering a TV, stereo, and refreshments. A similar idea was tried on weekend nights last year...
...Connecting links between Pennsy and New York Central tracks are being rushed at Toledo, Grand Rapids, Cincinnati, Terre Haute, Chicago, Buffalo and Detroit. Freight yards at Cleveland and Indianapolis will be modernized, and an entire new yard-to be named after Perlman-is being built at Albany. The basic idea is to take advantage of the savings that through-freight operations can provide. "The speed factor is vital," says Perlman. "If goods are in transit for four days, someone has to have them on the books for four days. Any reduction in time that we can make will be beneficial...
Pifer urged the creation of a long-range planning center for higher education, drawing heavily on university advisers and given authority to guide federal policy. Its first task would be to seek agreement on how federal aid should be distributed. He rejected the idea of broad, unselective grants to all institutions on the ground that this would merely "perpetuate, only on a more costly scale, everything that is wrong" with higher education now. One. of his proposals was for the designation of a few high-quality existing campuses as "national universities," which would be given preferential support for their scholars...
...strong supporting cast, notably Lilli Palmer as a sad-eyed, burned-out leftist, and the omnipresent John Gielgud as Sebastian's chief. But good actors need more than each other in order to make a film work, and in the end Naitsabes spelled backward is only a promising idea mishandled. Dab wohs...
...Advisor, Donald F. Hornig, refused to endorse the plan when he presented it to newsmen. Zaccharias had reported that his committee wanted the Bank plan "pressed and pressed to completion," but Hornig stressed that "we are not proposing establishment of the Bank. We are releasing the proposal as an idea that has to be shaped by public discussion...