Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outside angel shared Lowell's fervent faith in the scheme. "In a kind of desperation," Lowell finally endowed the society out of his own pocket, "although it took nearly all I had." (It took $1,500,000.) Last week the impressive return on Lowell's investment was totted up in a proud report by the society's chairman, History Professor Crane Brinton...
...during the early days of World War II. By putting 5,850 new second lieutenants on active duty this year, ROTC will fill 69% of the Army's need for new officers. But is compulsion necessary? The Navy's volunteer ROTC program includes a first-rate scholarship scheme that produces fine officers with fewer dropouts. The Air Force is already trying to end the massive "lost motion" of its semi-compulsory ROTC program (TIME. Dec. 28). Some Pentagon experts estimate that half the Army's college units could lose their compulsory status by 1970 without endangering...
...Baron, 23, a chemical engineering major (he has since quit school to give full time to the business), and Ray Keche-ley, 22, majoring in business administration, were won over by Dr. Poindexter's offer to screen applicants without a fee. Even the scheme's sponsors were surprised by the applicants' qualifications: fully half had some college education, and about 20% had college degrees. In their case histories could be found the whole gamut of emotional illnesses. Some were still on active follow-up treatment; others were taking only tranquilizers. Some were rated as fully rehabilitated-except...
Between the years when Sir Isaac Pitman and John R. Gregg devised their competing shorthand systems (as any stenographer knows, Gregg's is now predominant in the U.S.), a man named Andrew Graham developed a Pitmanish shorthand scheme that resembled, as much as any script, Arabic. By the time he was 17, Woodrow Wilson had all but mastered the Graham system, in 1874 dashed off a note in Graham to Graham. For the rest of his life, Wilson kept improving his Graham to a degree where present historians almost wished for a shorthand Rosetta stone that would provide...
...sell his scheme, Saarinen had his longtime friend Charles Eames make a film on the trials of an air passenger, in which one background noise was the squeak of shoes. Washington officials were sold, last week displayed Saarinen's design for the building, to be completed in the spring of 1961. The field itself will occupy 9,800 acres near Chantilly, Va. (23 miles west of Washington), boast two major runways each 2¼ miles long. Saarinen admits to not having solved another major headache for air travelers: the long wait for baggage. "After a careful survey," Saarinen says...