Word: ince
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...early taste of many fields so that later they can channel themselves more effectively. Most of the effort is still at the high school level. An ambitious plan to do the job even earlier is a pilot project at Darien (Conn.) High School called Sciences and Arts Camps Inc. SAAC's goal: to launch a chain of brain-stirring summer day camps for gifted fourth-to sixth-graders in suburbs across the country...
...published Red Star Over China, glorifying Mao and his men, has been affiliated with Communist-front groups. He argues for U.S. recognition of Red China. Last week Snow was back in China to finish gathering material for a biography of Leader Mao-thanks to Cowles Magazines, Inc...
When Snow first wrote the State Department asking for permission last May, he was turned down because his publishing house, Random House, Inc., was not one of the 30-odd news-gathering agencies authorized to apply for passports to Red China. He promptly got himself designated as the representative of Cowles's Look Magazine and applied again. The State Department felt-and frankly told Cowles executives-that Snow could hardly be considered an objective reporter. "When we instituted this program," explained a State spokesman, "we wanted objective reporting in depth, and now Cowles comes along with someone we feel...
...jokes about them. Jack Dreyfus, head of the $109 million Dreyfus Fund, recently satirized the glamour business: "Take a nice little company that's been making shoe laces for 40 years and sells at a respectable six times earnings ratio. Change the name from Shoelaces, Inc. to Electronics & Silicon Furth-burners. In today's market, the words 'electronics' and 'silicon' are worth 15 times earnings. However, the real play in this stock comes from the word 'furth-burners,' which no one under stands. A word that no one understands entitles...
...John Erik Jonsson, 58, chairman of Texas Instruments Inc., was not worth very much money only seven years ago-and neither was his company, specializing in geophysical work for oil companies. The stock sold for $5.13 a share. Then he began to pick up companies, entered the military electronics field with transistors and other electronic devices. Last week the company's stock sold at 214.75. Jonsson now owns stock worth $82 million. His associates have done nearly as well: Texins' executive committee chairman, Eugene McDermott, owns shares worth $65 million and President Patrick E. Haggerty shares worth...