Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure to have comments; "Honors for all" does not have to rest on specialization for all. One possibility for the Innocent is Honors in General Education (not, however, the 1960 variety of gen ed). Other possibilities are based on the assumption that writing the thesis and taking a magic number of courses is not the only road for an education at this College. There is no reason why every student should not work, and work hard. But there is also no reason why his work should be circumscribed according to any concept of education in a proto-graduate school pattern...
...year, and cost the Government an extra $700 million to carry its debt. The cost to private borrowers has run into the billions, is growing so worrisome that even housebuilders, who once opposed raising the ceiling, are now having serious second thoughts. The Treasury's medium-term "magic fives" of last fall (TIME, Oct. 12) drew some $200 million out of New York savings banks alone, money that ordinarily would have gone for mortgages...
...million in life and general (fire, casualty, and marine) insurance premiums, has more than $1 billion in force. From his insurance fortune, Starr can also afford to be a sportsman, patron of the arts and philanthropist. He spent more than $2,000,000 transforming Stowe, Vt. into the Magic Mountain of New England skiing, underwrote the cost of the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Mad ame Butterfly (TIME, March 3, 1958), and has helped further international relations by annually providing scholarships in U.S. schools for some 20 foreign col lege students...
...Friends, 'The Spectacular Sixties' takes you know, by the magic of video tape to that historic Canadian laboratory where several hours ago machines first attained useful, intelligent human communication...