Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard does not make classified research contracts," Smithies said. "I've always felt this is a good idea. Some classified research has to be done, however, and individual members of the Faculty are now free to do some moonlighting. I support this principle--classified research is not all that malevolent. I like doing it because so few people ever read...
...George Washington wrote that patriotic idealism could not inspire his ragged, ill-trained army, that it must be toughened by "a prospect of interest or some reward." He meant cash. Only well after victory did the shaky American nation burst forth with an optimistic self-image based on the idea that the humane spirit of 18th century enlightenment could be fully realized for the first time anywhere. General Washington called himself "a citizen of the great republic of humanity at large," and countless divines proclaimed Americans to be God's chosen people. "We are acting for all mankind," said...
...Engineer Von R. Eshleman to bounce the first radar signals off the sun.* Classified research at Michigan helped Emmett N. Leith develop the new science of holography (see SCIENCE), which uses laser light to produce three-dimensional images with potential uses in art, television and industry. Says Leith: "The idea that you can close yourself off to these programs is pure ignorance...
...Omaha-born son of the owner of a small insurance company, he began dabbling in the stock market in his teens, ran up his $20,000 grubstake by age 18. He moved west after his father's death, started selling fire insurance, and soon hit upon the idea of concentrating on the low-risk residential side of that business, especially on foreclosed properties (which in those days required a new policy). Thus the Depression made him rich. "I felt like an undertaker," Ahmanson once remarked. 'The worse things got, the better they were...
...Boston will continue to decay until it becomes as stolid and as provincial as one of those Irish county seats that most of our people walked out of 150 years ago." The mustachioed poll worker's analysis of Boston's fate under Mrs. Hicks seems essentially accurate; but the idea that the Honorable Kevin H. White, Secretary of State for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts could turn Boston into the swinging Athens of America does seem open to question...