Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposed structure would fit into the University's overall parking scheme and would probably house cars of employees, staff, and faculty, as well as students. Perhaps a four-story ramp garage with parking both on the roof and below ground, it would probably include service station facilities on the ground floor run by the present operators...
...collection supplemented by gifts from others, Miss Frick also snorted that the Rockefeller bequests-a Piero della Francesca painting and two marble busts-were either inferior art to start with or damaged. Down in Washington, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 76, was no less outraged when she heard of a scheme to designate part of a projected Washington cultural center as a memorial to rough-riding Theodore Roosevelt. Mrs. Longworth blasted the plan in tones that sounded like an echo of T.R. himself. Said she: "The hell with the cultural center as a memorial. I flee from thinking about things like that...
...teacher's sweater backward as a robe. By the first graduation exercises, even kids once addicted to pedaling along at dizzy speeds were reformed enough to win coveted safety certificates. If the lessons stick with the children through the ten years or so before they can drive, the scheme promises to be a big success, and the only complainers are parents who bridle at advice from back-seat drivers of inconsiderable years...
American Motors' scheme to reward its customers when sales are good seemed to be paying off last week. During the first part of December, in a slipping auto market, sales were only 1.7% above the 1959 rate. After President George Romney announced at midmonth that a $25 U.S. Savings Bond would go to car buyers during a four-month period for every 10% increase in sales over the preceding year, sales shot up, finished 15.9% over December 1959. Last week American Motors began sending out $25 bonds to 34,971 car buyers. Among the recipients: General Motors Corp., which...
...record-club scheme joined by many members of the University may be fraudulent, it was learned yesterday. The Better Business Bureau and Post Office Inspectors are engaged in investigating complaints against the College Record Club, of Providence...