Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also a liberal art, a logic for solving social as well as scientific problems. How much more of it Americans might have is suggested in the new Cambridge Report, a manifesto by 25 top U.S. math users and teachers who hammered it out at Harvard. To lift the national logic level and stamp out mathematical illiteracy, these experts argue that sixth-graders can and should attain a competence "well above that of the general population today." For high school graduates, they prescribe two years of calculus and a knowledge "comparable to three years of top-level college training today...
Parted Lips. Though he was well-steeped in the classical tradition of sculpture that ennobles the sitter's profile, Houdon was incapable of flattery. He did not spare the pockmarks on the face of French Revolutionary Mirabeau, or embellish the vapid looks of the young Lafayette, or face-lift the homely dewlap of Ben Franklin. The result is that the popular likenesses today of some of the greatest men of the revolutionary periods in France and America started with the passionately accurate chisel of Houdon. Now on view at Massachusetts' Worcester Art Museum...
When New York's Governor Rockefeller wanted to lift state revenue in 1963 while appearing to honor his pledge not to raise taxes, he tried a package of new or increased fees for the registration of everything from autos to hairdressers. Included, despite strong bar-association protests, was a one-shot $15 fee for every practicing lawyer. On reflection, the New York City Bar Association has decided that this registration fee might be a good idea after all. Last week the association proposed to the state legislature that a similar charge be levied every two years-the money...
...freight is only beginning. Before mid-1965, U.S. airlines will be flying 30 DC-8F and Boeing 707-321C jet freighters, each of which in one week's normal schedule can car ry coast to coast enough freight to fill 20 boxcars. Using prepacked freight pallets, special lift mechanisms and aircraft floors with built-in rollers, crews can load and unload jet freighters in less than half the time it takes to load a piston plane with one third the cargo capacity. Air freighters can offer overnight delivery on both coast-to-coast and transatlantic shipments...
...bill came out of the Finance Committee in roughly the form asked first by President John F. Kennedy and then by Johnson. The President's supporters in a last-minute rally won a reversal of a series of surprise votes to lift man-excise taxes--at an estimated revenue loss of $455 million, compared with...