Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Waldorf-Astoria on the day the fighting started, $1,000,000 a minute was pledged during one quarter-hour. That night in Chicago, another $2.5 million was raised. Next night in Atlanta, $1.1 million more was forthcoming. The pace was so fast that officials often had no idea how much they had collected. In New York, where the United Jewish Appeal set up an Israel Emergency Fund, Executive Vice President Herbert Friedman jotted down a flood of big-money pledges on odd scraps of office memo paper. "This," he said, "is a hell of a way to raise millions...
...Boeing Co.'s 747 superjet is designed to be so large and efficient that it can carry 490 people across oceans for much less than it costs the other subsonic jets to do the job today. To make the idea work, however, Boeing had to market the 747, which it seems to have done successfully. With parts for the prototype arriving daily at Boeing's Renton, Wash., plant, and the plane's first flight due in about 27 months, the nation's largest aerospace company has so far sold 102 of the jumbo jets...
...India. Most of the carriers prefer a first-and tourist-class seating that allows for 350 to 362 passengers. To Boeing, which had originally planned the 747 as a military transport that would be similar to Lockheed's successful C-5A, this almost negates the whole idea of the nine-abreast economy airliners. To prove the point, Boeing last week lined up 490 employees, photographed them (see cut) alongside a mock-up of the 747 to dramatize the capacity that the 747 is capable of carrying...
When government ministers from four of the free world's main copper-exporting countries gathered in the sweltering Zambian capital of Lusaka on June 1, the copper-consuming nations had every reason to worry. The idea, as conceived last fall by Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda and Chilean President Eduardo Frei, was to set up a price-and-quota-fixing copper cartel to control the world market. After all, their countries plus Peru and the Congo produce 70% of the earth's copper sold for export. * With economies largely based on copper, all four nations have suffered...
...flutist and a physics major or a 'cellist and concentrator in history and literature, he's really an ace. But if he concentrates in music, he is in grave danger of losing whatever musicality he might have had in the first place. The Harvard musician's aversion to the idea of intensive study of music as a necessary prelude to prelude to performing is thus only half arrogance and disdain: it is also fear--which the music department is directly responsible for fostering...