Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elke Sommer essays a predictable Treatise on Eugenics about a free-thinking Swedish miss who tours Rome seeking a perfect specimen of Latin manhood to sire an illegitimate child. In the end, of course, Elke must choose between her theories and the prospect of breeding urchins with her hired chauffeur, a sturdy but steady Neanderthal...
...Administration bill to create a Cabinet-level Department of Housing and Urban Development. The vote was 217 to 184, comfortable enough for practical purposes but the closest squeeze of the year for one priority proposal for the Great Society. The bill now goes to the Senate, where its prospects are favorable. It would elevate to departmental status the Housing and Home Finance Agency and make its head man a Cabinet member. The present HHFA chief, Robert Weaver, a Negro, is the leading prospect for the new post...
Henry Robinson Luce, LL.D., Editorial Chairman, Time Inc. The history of our century could not be written without recognizing the impact upon journalism and opinion of publications you have fathered, which now reach more than fifty million readers on this earth -with every prospect of future editions for other planets to come...
...standard theories is that the Loeb scares people, that the prospect of a movable stage, good acoustics, plenty of space, and one of the most modern lighting boards in the world, overwhelms them, reduces them to the most elementary set designs and uninspired lighting. I have never actually found someone who claimed to have been overwhelmed, but a lot of people think others have been, and a few directors have admitted to vague uneasiness...
Eviction notices have already been delivered to some of the residents, and their battle is presently regarded as coming to a final, unsuccessful conclusion. However, the planners observed that the area's inhabitants "clearly have a deep attachment to their homes and neighborhood. . .and the prospect of forced displacement appears to present a severe crisis...