Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hospital has 90 beds, which are always full, and a talented staff of doctors and nurses, many of whom spend voluntary terms of six months or a year at the hospital. More important, however, is the hospital's efforts in community development. A serious program in health education and veterinary care is slowly bringing the people to the ways of change. Teams work in the fields with the Haitian peasants, teaching them irrigation, soil improvement and croprotation techniques. A school has been started for the children of the community, and construction at the hospital has given the people job opportunities...
Esquire magazine has selected Thomas J. Shields '69, chairman of the Dunster House Committee, as the best dressed man on campus. Shields--the only Ivy Leaguer among the ten chosen--will spend the next week in New York and Washington D. C. trying to predict what fashions will be most popular next year and modeling for Esquire...
...Airline Pilot Ernest K. Gann, then 42, quit the cockpit for full-time writing (The High and The Mighty, Fate Is the Hunter), now lives a bucolic existence on one of Puget Sound's San Juan Islands and feels sorry for airline pilots who spend all their working lives at it. Gann is now determined to quit writing and try painting, mainly because he loves the challenge of tackling a new subject that he knows nothing about. "It's fear that makes us old," he says. "In a new career, you don't know what...
Expanding the gravity studies, Oyama and NASA Biologist William Platt have begun to use a new 26-ft.-radius centrifuge that can be supplied with food and cleansed of waste while it is running. On it, generations of rodents can be born and spend their entire lives under uninterrupted higher G. loads. From the responses of test animals-eventually including primates-Oyama hopes to predict the effects on astronauts of space trips that last for months and even years...
Want a share of that swinging, spendthrift teen-age market? Start a magazine. In the first issue, smother the scene. Top off a piece on skydiving with one on motorcycling. Spend an afternoon with Warren Beatty, an evening with Timothy Leary. Run the confessions of a college dropout, along with a few essentials about "the good, grey rebel," Eugene McCarthy. Sprinkle in some pictures of electric dresses. And right in the middle of it all, plant one of those psychedelic fold-out posters. Crazy...