Word: soaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cannes, skindivers soar around beds of jeweled coral-reds, violets, purples, yellows-in pursuit of sea bass and mullet. In Australia they prowl the caverns of the1,250-mile Great Barrier Reef, or play tag with the gregarious seals that frolic off Carnac Island. Near London, divers happily muddle through the ooze of a dank lake in Black Park...
...annual cost of U.S. higher education hits an expected $9 billion by 1970, voluntary support must soar to $1.9 billion a year. Yet this gift goal is no mirage. In its third biennial survey, the Council for Financial Aid to Education reported this week that 1,071 colleges and universities in 1958-59 received gifts totaling $751.4 million, a 20.7% hike over -9 56-57-The pattern of giving was especially interesting. Loyal alumuni were the biggest source (20.3%), and even the graduates of tax-supported state universities gave more than ever before; Indiana alumni gave $2,032,435, followed...
...fill the gigantic mold of a Wagnerian hero, a tenor should 1) have a voice big enough and resonant enough to soar over the timpani-tempered Wagnerian orchestra, 2) be robust enough to support swooning Wagnerian sopranos, and 3) preferably be named Lauritz Melchior. At the Metropolitan Opera last week, a topnotch revival of Wagner's Die Walkuere (conducted by Karl Boehm) offered the audience a dramatic tenor who ideally fulfilled the first two requirements and made the third one seem unimportant. The tenor: 33-year-old, Canadian-born Jon Vickers...
...massed columns of figures the 1961 budget reflects U.S. confidence in the present and hopes for the months ahead. The whopping revenue estimates were based on Treasury Department forecasts that, in calendar year 1960, the U.S.'s gross national product will soar for the first time in history above the $500 billion mark-and by at least $10 billion. Even so, President Eisenhower was able to say happily at his news conference last week: "We are accused of being too conservative...
...production 85% ahead of the final quarter of 1959. Between now and March 31, the industry expects to produce 2,250,000 cars. It will be the largest first-quarter production in history, if there is no labor trouble. Automen predict that 1960 sales, including 500,000 imports, will soar above 7,000,000. American Motors'George Romney, most enthusiastic of the lot, forecasts...