Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beach in Kenya, 22 American mathematicians are hard at work on a project into which the U.S. AID agency has poured a million dollars. Their quarters are in a white stucco hotel overlooking the deep blue of the Indian Ocean, and their job is to help African countries prepare modern math textbooks. Said William Martin, 55, of M.I.T., the head of the workshop: "Don't go thinking the sponsors aren't getting their pound of flesh." His wife echoed this sentiment by describing a dance at the hotel: "There were the locals twisting and smooching in the moonlight...
Stealing from Satchmo. For Hines, the acclaim abroad is the echo of a grander triumph back home. Now 60, he is the founding fatha of modern jazz piano. Yet for the better part of the past 15 years, he foundered as a forgotten jazz immortal swept aside by capricious tastes. Two years ago, his name was nowhere on the jazz popularity polls. Many fans thought that he had passed on to that big jam session in the sky. In this year's Down Beat International Jazz Critics Poll, however, he was voted the world's No. 1 jazz...
Died. Frank O'Hara, 40, poet, art critic and associate curator of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art; of injuries suffered while standing on the beach when a "beach-buggy" driver, blinded by approaching headlights, swerved and ran over him; on Fire Island...
Belaúnde has also resisted political pressures to nationalize the U.S.-owned International Petroleum Co. (TIME, Nov. 8, 1963), has created a climate that makes investment thrive. Along the new highways around Lima, small but modern plants are producing everything from TV sets to tobacco products. Cashing in on consumer prosperity, Sears, Roebuck will soon open its third store in Lima, and has plans for two more next year. Until March 1965, Peru imported all its autos; it now has five assembly plants, will get eight more from French, German, Swedish and Japanese automakers next year. Says General Motors...
...according to legend, William H. Vanderbilt was asked if he operated the passenger trains of his New York Central & Hudson River Railroad for profit or for public service. "The public be damned!" was his immortal reply. "We run them because we have to. They don't pay." The modern New York Central has changed its manner, if not its mind. Along with the Central's Twentieth Century and New York-Detroit Wolverine, the venerable Spirit of St. Louis may also be eliminated if the Interstate Commerce Commission approves the request of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which is now more...