Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long Range. Beyond his short-range proposals to spur recovery and aid the recession's hardest-hit victims, Kennedy also unfurled some long-span programs that cheered businessmen. He urged cheaper long-term loans to spur capital investment; at the same time he hoped to firm short-term interest rates to stem the flow of gold to countries where rates are more attractive. The two goals are "contradictory," Kennedy admitted, and achieving them would require all the wizardry of Republican Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Democratic Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. Kennedy went on to speak...
...transition from Dwight Eisenhower to John Kennedy was unflawed by the personal and political feudism of the Hoover-Roosevelt and Truman-Eisenhower changeovers. During the span between election and inauguration, members of the Eisenhower Administration, at the President's orders, cooperated fully with Kennedy and his appointees. Eisenhower and Kennedy met face to face for three hours in early December. Last week, the day before the inauguration, they conferred again, then met with Cabinet officers of the old and new Administrations in what a joint communiqué called a "full discussion of the world situation...
...human body is not new; Harvard's Dr. John Rock first achieved it in 1944. What is remarkable is that Dr. Petrucci kept one fertilized egg alive for 29 days, and had to kill it because it was growing "monstrous." U.S. scientists have managed a test-tube life span of six days...
...Atlantic ever since. Jackie's grandfather, John Vernou Bouvier Jr., was a spellbinding trial lawyer, an authority on George Washington, and a noted orator. At the dedication of the George Washington Bridge, he delivered a stirring address-and the Bouviers ever since have referred to the span as "our bridge...
...Chicago, who set out to prove that the soundest modern education is immersion in the classics. To combat specialization, all St. Johnnies take the same nonelective diet. Instead of training for jobs, they mull the perennial principles in the "100 Great Books" (now actually 168). In four years, they span more than 2,000 years of "the substance of human experience," from Homer's Iliad to Einstein's Theory of Relativity...