Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...starting a third party led by King, Galbraith or Gavin. The early September debacle at the National Conference for a New Politics in Chicago killed the third party movement. With declining hopes in the Republican Party and the total failure of the Draft Bobby Kennedy movement, Lowenstein's idea of defeating President Johnson within the Democratic Party gained more credibility while he was away on a September trip to Vietnam to observe the elections as a private citizen...
...taxes on only a fraction. When he dies, he leaves no large estate to be taxed; the money is still in the foundation, which has merely lost its most treasured trustee but which can easily replace him with someone else like, say, his son. The obvious attractions of the idea have brought ABC at least 250 members so far, and the number continues to grow, partly because of a bonus paid to those who bring in new members. In fact, the enterprise has become successful enough to attract the attention of Texas' Democratic Representative Wright Patman, whose House...
...supply of hearts for transplantation will increase, Barnard predicted, when the public has been sufficiently educated so that relatives will give the necessary consent when someone has suffered a fatal injury. Christiaan Barnard's television appearances were calculated to win just such broader public acceptance of an idea that would have been greeted with universal horror only a month earlier...
...true: Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave are not female reincarnations of Laurel and Hardy. At first blush it must have looked like a great idea-Lynn is a great big broth of a girl whose eye-batting optimism thinly masks a steely and ruthless ineptitude; Rita, with the wispy, downtrodden look of a disgruntled rodent, is obviously born to be picked on. Moreover, the girls did awfully well together in the comic moments of 1964's The Girl with Green Eyes...
...idea of simulating situations in order to better understand them has a long history of its own. The earliest simulated game is chess, which began in India in the 7th century. The U.S. government became interested in using foreign policy gaming in the 1950's. As training for foreign service officers, the game technique was not a great success. However, the Foreign Policy Association, a foreign affairs adult education group, found simulation gaming useful in giving amateurs some empathy for the professionals. FPA thereafter loaned their copyrighted game to GBX. Simulation is not only useful in foreign affairs; Harvard Business...