Word: soaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After trying his hand at a number of jobs, he finally hired on with Lockheed in 1939 as a $275-a-month production specialist. Lockheed has since come to soar, and so has Dan Haughton. He became Lockheed's executive vice president in 1956, rose to president in 1961, last week was named to succeed Courtlandt S. Gross as chairman of the board...
Even as they slog through the lave pits of childhood and adolescence, most youths are forming some vision of what shape the cooled adult crust will take, how high the peaks will soar. For their models, they look to their fathers, older brothers, a teacher, a figure plunked from history-an Alexander or a Gehrig, a Shaw or a Morgan, a Renoir or a Luciano. for Raoul Levy, born of a Russian-Jewish family in Antwerp, educated there and at the London School of Economics, an R.A.F. veteran of World War II, there never seems to have been much doubt...
...rise even higher in a presidential year: candidates at all levels spent at least $200 million in 1964, including estimates of $40 million by each party for Johnson and Goldwater. In view of the candidates' growing reliance on TV time, the price of electioneering will clearly continue to soar. As the President noted in signing the Long Act, Congress' next task will be to scrutinize and tighten up "our campaign-financing laws-which are now more loophole than...
...pages, and Houghton Mifflin, which had contracted for it, turned it down. Reluctantly, the three girls cut it to 684 pages-still too long for Houghton Mifflin, but not for Gourmet Alfred Knopf, who brought it out in 1961, and has been watching the sales soar ever since. . Three Pounds to Go. When Paul Child resigned the same year, he and Julia moved into the pleasant, intellectual community of Cambridge, Mass., buying the house once owned by famed Harvard Philosopher Josiah Royce. One of their first improvements was to redo the kitchen to make it a cooking laboratory for Julia...
Watching Sales Soar. Through friends in Paris, she met Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, a pair of Frenchwomen who were working on a cookbook for Americans. In no time they decided to open a cooking school, L'Ecole des Trois Gourmandes, using the Childs' spacious Left Bank kitchen as their classroom. At $5 a lesson, the school fees barely covered the cost of the food. But the practical experience of teaching proved invaluable, for by now Julia-had not only been taken on the team as translator, but also, with Simone Beck, was making the major creative contributions...