Word: item
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...criticized Allen's "caretaker"' plan as inefficient, but also urged the expulsion of Silver & Co. The mayor happily agreed. Then, concerned about charges of state interference in city affairs. Rockefeller toned down Allen's proposal to make reorganization of the board's functions its key item...
...enough to withstand Mach 2 speeds would pose such immense problems that Boeing estimates development costs at $800 million. The most optimistic guess of the potential market for Mach 2s is only 450 planes by 1975; one longtime airline operator puts it as low as 50 ("a national prestige item"). There is every indication that the airframe manufacturers do not need two burnings by jet to learn their economic lesson, will steer clear of the Mach 2 until they can count on heavy Government loans or subsidies...
...omitted a significant item in the story on Whittaker Chambers [July 21]. Chambers had in the Congressional hearings charged that Hiss had been a Communist. Hiss challenged Chambers to repeat the charge outside of the Congressional hearings without immunity so that. he could bring suit against him. It was at that point that I asked Chambers to appear on Meet the Press, in order to learn whether he would accept the challenge and answer a question about Hiss's Communism. In his book Witness, Chambers said that the answer to the question was the most important that he ever...
...dangers about which doctors are not told enough. Some are inadequately tested in animals before being marketed, so that human patients serve, in effect, as guinea pigs to find out whether they are safe or not. A drug may be so costly, especially if it is a patented, monopoly item, that a patient's drug bill for a single illness can run to thousands of dollars. Almost any drug costs far more if it is prescribed by trade name instead of the generic chemical name...
...arrows also twanged toward the summer people, whom he calls "the Codfish Aristocracy; they come here and rot with cocktail parties, and when they entertain our stars, they do so to show them off as freaks to their guests." If the Kennebunkport Playhouse makes it to the last item on his 1961 schedule, the summer people and the year-rounders will again be watching Edward Everett Horton in Springtime for Henry. Then, if anyone comes along with the $300,000 asking price for the Playhouse, what will Robert C. Currier do with himself...