Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week at the library, workers in the first-floor museum area were carefully positioning J.F.K.'s rocking chair in a re-creation of the Oval Office. A replica of the large presidential desk was being moved from a storeroom; the original desk, still in the White House, was...
The clash between liberals and the Pontiff came out in the open at a service for 7,000 nuns at Washington's National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. As millions watched on television, Sister Theresa Kane, president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, used her welcoming speech to...
The centennial of Edison's great achievement comes at a time when American innovative genius, so well personified by Edison, has begun to fade. The nation that produced Robert Fulton, Robert Goddard, Edmund Land and many others now has far fewer folk-hero tinkerers. Laments James G. Cook, president...
Most of the important indicators are pointing down. The number of patents granted to U.S. citizens dropped from 56,000 in 1971 to 44,482 last year. Spending on research and development, which peaked at 3% of G.N.P. in 1964, was only 2.2% last year. While the U.S. percentage has...
Businessmen must share the opprobrium for stifling innovation. Says Donald Frey, chairman of Bell & Howell: "The biggest problem in the U.S. is not the lack of inventive capacity but the lack of businessmen willing to take the risk investments." The bottom-line obsession of many managers results in quick payoff...