Word: nonprofit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taxiing Home. Smaller cities, bypassed by the transcontinental jets, see the airpark as a way to attract new light industry. La Crosse, Wis., is building a hundred-acre park next to its municipal airport, and Manchester, N.H., and Lincoln, R.I., both have set up nonprofit trusts to lease sites in their new airparks. Last week Atlanta Industrial Designer H. McKinley Conway Jr., who has planned several airparks, flew to Meridian, Miss., to confer with town officials who want to build one there. There is, of course, still the problem of commuting between home and work-but the Sierra Sky Park...
...music lovers as "a central repository for the music, sounds and voices of our times." The Institute's 300,000 tapes and disks, half of them recordings never issued commercially, were donated by private collector, artists, radio stations, the Metropolitan Opera and the Boston Symphony. Headquarters for the nonprofit organization are in Carnegie Hall. There Institute President Richard Striker, a 31-year-old exactor, works with six volunteers, surrounded by towering mounds of tapes and recordings...
...success, Steven, now 57, was never very popular with the Chronicle's owners. They are the trustees of Houston Endowment Inc., a $400 million nonprofit foundation that was set up by the late Millionaire Jesse Jones and converts earnings from a wide range of interests into scholarships and support for the arts. Steven reversed the paper's conservative policies and put it squarely behind integration. The Chronicle helped integrate the Houston schools and more recently, the all-city symphony orchestra...
...embattled Aerospace Corp. Subject: how to mend the firm's badly shredded reputation. Five years ago, convinced that no private corporation could capably handle the overall systems engineering and technical direction of its missile-development program, the Air Force set up California-based Aerospace as a Government-financed, nonprofit corporation. Some of the things that went on thereafter would make profit-minded businessmen apoplectic, and were enough to set off an investigation by the General Accounting Office and a House Armed Services subcommittee...
...services as the psychologist and public relations counselors have been dropped, and the Air Force's auditing has been tightened up. "There have been no big bad things," insists Secretary Zuckert. The little bad things, however, took on enlarged significance simply because Defense has contracts with 300 other nonprofit organizations. Stunned by what it found at Aerospace, the House Armed Services subcommittee intends to look into spending and allowances at some of these...