Word: spate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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National Preoccupation. Within his own department, Gardner is experimenting with a spate of solutions to what he calls the "crises of organization" that afflict practically every domestic U.S. program. "Most organizations have a structure that was designed to solve problems that no longer exist," says Gardner, and he has been tinkering with HEW's machinery ever since he arrived...
...Gases. Back with père et maman in Paris, young Ferdinand's grotesque adventures continue in mad spate. Father is a clerk, a monster of suspicion and self-pity; Mother deals in junk, which she tries to sell as antiques. They are failures, and Ferdinand thrashes them frightfully for it. He throws himself on the mercies of an uncle, who is a friend of Courtial Des Pereires, a prince of crackpots...
Satisfying as it is to Saigon to know that Ho has problems remarkably akin to South Viet Nam's own, Western analysts are more intrigued by a spate of recent Red articles and broadcasts dealing with the progress of the war. The conflict has gone progressively worse for the Communists ever since the U.S. arrived in force last year. Only now does Hanoi seem to be groping for a new theology to sustain the Viet Cong in the face of continued reverses...
...aluminum plant. Also last week United Brazilian Minerals, which is 49% owned by Cleveland's Hanna Mining, was granted the right to mine and export iron ore and eventually to manufacture steel, an ambitious $600 million enterprise. The two new projects were only the latest in a spate of similar announcements. Phil lips Petroleum plans to pump in some $60 million, starting with a new fertilizer plant for which ground has already been broken. Union Carbide will expand its operations to the tune of $62,300,000. International Harvester has not only reopened; it is also spending $30 million...
License to Fail. The new stress in teaching theater has produced a spate of stunning new playhouses. The University of Illinois' entry is the $20 million Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, including three theaters. Tiny Shinier College (enrollment: 514) in Mount Carroll, Ill., has a 300-seat arena-type theater. The University of Michigan is building a $3,000,000 playhouse with 1,426 seats to serve the university and the off-campus Ann Arbor theater crowd. With $1,500,000 donated by Conrad Hilton, St. Louis' Webster College has put up its new Loretto-Hilton Center...