Word: rare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Corporation's members must also have realized that Lamont's successor gave them a rare chance to fight their image problems. Lamont was a Wall Street banker, director of the Morgan Guaranty Trust. Compared to him, almost any new members the Corporation chose would look like a step away from the Eastern financial establishment. The only possible exceptions would be Rockefellers or Mellons, and the Corporation reportedly offered the post to David Rockfeller. But if he did get the offer, he turned it down, and the Corporation eventually turned to Hugh Calkins...
...student play is a rare occurrence among Harvard productions. A play this new, never produced before, is just as rare here. The thinking for it began last summer, the writing began in New York, and was finished here during February and March. Shea has had teaching jobs in both places. He read Lermontov's book long ago. And why this particular choice for the subject of his play? "It's good story." Shea already has another play planned, the story of Anton Mesmer. In it, the spiritualist will appear as Jesus in another play-within-the-play...
...Harvard, which captured a whopping 15 of 18 events for the day. Alvord won the 100-yard dash in 10.2 seconds and later scored a victory in the 220-yard dash with a 23.1 clocking. John Gillis's triumph in the 440-yard dash (49.0 sec.) completed a rare sweep in the sprints for Harvard...
Such moments are rare, and probably always will be. Ethel Skakel Kennedy has been idle for hardly a minute in her life. Even as a child, says her brother Jim, her emotional makeup was "total reaction. The only time she rested, she rested from exhaustion." She was born in Chicago, the sixth of seven children (three boys, four girls). After her father moved his business, the multimillion-dollar Great Lakes Carbon Corp., to New York, the family lived briefly in suburban Larchmont and then on a 16-acre estate in Greenwich, Conn...
...never doubts his power to hold his own in the marketplace. He is as readily bored by routine as he is challenged by risk taking - and he knows how to reckon the odds. Such a man is obviously valu able to any economy, but he is also rare. Is there a way to develop him? In Motivating Economic Achievement, to be published this month by The Free Press of Manhattan, Psychologists McClelland and David G. Winter of Wesleyan University argue that the seeds of entrepreneurship can be planted with almost ridiculous ease...