Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This summer, however, three members of the Russian Research Center published a report entitled "How the Soviet System Works." It is based on the first large-scale study of attitudes and life-experiences of Soviet citizens--some 3,000 of them--and was conducted by the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, with the support of the U.S. Air Force. It is the first scholarly approach to the subject...
Having served with the University of the Ryukyus project on Okinawa, I am sure that some of the student demonstrations [Sept. 3] reflect more of a confused and growing spirit of nationalism than rabid anti-Americanism. Indeed, the Okinawans have been blessed by a most generous handout at all levels, and, now being so much in our debt, struggle to become independent in thought and action...
...During the negotiations on the controversial Dixon-Yates contract to build a $107 million steam plant for operation by private utilities in the Memphis area, Adolphe H. Wenzell acted as a Budget Bureau consultant while at the same time working for the First Boston Corp., financial agent for the project...
...Project. Esquire could have spared itself its new competition for only $5. From the age of 15, Chicagoan Hefner longed to work for the men's magazine, made the grade in its promotion department after he got out of the University of Illinois. But he quit when Esquire would not lift its $80-a-week offer for a Manhattan assignment to $85. From his own Near North Side apartment, on less than $11,000, almost all of it borrowed, he launched Playboy...
...living room of his apartment, across the street from Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral. But at the end of the month Playboy will begin moving from four different Chicago offices to a refurbished (for $500,000), five-story Playboy Building. That will give Hefner room for a new project. He has hired the whole staff of Mad, a short-lived satirical pulp, and out of Playboy's $750,000 profit (before taxes) in 1956, will launch a still unnamed new magazine this winter...