Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come to Washington to retain the status quo in the mortgage market," said Multimillionaire San Francisco Mortgage Banker Raymond H. Lapin, 49, when he took over the $28,000-a-year presidency of the Federal National Mortgage Association nine months ago. What was needed, he said was nothing less than "changes in structure, policy and objectives" of the nation's largest mortgage facility. Skeptics smiled wisely, knowing that such grand plans are often as not pulverized by the ponderous machinery of Government. Yet last week, when Lapin ordered a radical change in the way FNMA conducts its business, there...
...case, not having done the reading during the year the student has already lost the value of the lectures. Going to these unprepared, he is able only to retain the most striking fragments and insights of each particular lecture, with no real understanding of the unity of the lecturer's thought or any conception of the significance of these insights...
...alive the prophetic spirit that gives it meaning. The ideal state of the church, she argues, is not a formalized organization of worshipers but a community, an event, a human happening. This means that Christianity must exist in a continual state of concern and self-renewal. "The church can retain its continuity only by not clinging to what it has become," she concludes. "Stone cathedrals, jewelled monstrances and infallible doctrines are false reflections of the value and fidelity...
...that sincerity. In preliminary drafts of the speech-and in the advance word given to congressional leaders and foreign powers including Britain, the Soviet Union and France-the 20th parallel cutoff point was explicitly stated. That specific was deleted from the final speech on the ground that Washington should retain some flexibility; thus many listeners inferred that the bombing would continue only in the area immediately north of the Demilitarized Zone. The day after the speech, U.S. bombers ranged more than 200 miles into North Viet Nam to raid a radar site in the Thanh Hoa area, just below...
...children are in six classes, ranging from nursery school to a combined fourth and fifth grade. A $60,000 grant from the Kettering Foundation helped start the school, but despite scattered donations from some 30 foundations, it is hard-pressed for the scholarship funds it needs to retain its racial mix. Half the students get financial aid in meeting the tuition, which runs from $1,050 to $1,700 a year. Already 500 applicants are competing for 25 openings next year. They will be chosen mainly on the basis of highly subjective interviews. "It's like having a tray...