Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Universal Stake...
...have universal commitments, but we have a universal stake in there not being aggression and in the ability of small nations to live alone and not be molested simply because they live near a great power. Otherwise the total fabric of international life collapses and this becomes once again the law of the jungle where the denizens of the jungle have weapons that just must not be used if man is to survive...
...pursuit is undertaken with relish and good humor, much as a Claes Oldenburg delights in making a mattress-sized Popsicle on a limp stick. Beauty seems no longer at stake; the word itself is rarely used. But tough, satirical commentary abounds. "An artist should be an evangelist for looking," says Rauschenberg. Yet in creating a second, magical reality, the artist often ends up with whole stage-sets, creating a future problem: What's to keep the museums of the future from looking like a decayed Disneyland, or the whole back...
Died. Hugh Latimer Dryden, 67, deputy chief of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; of cancer; in Washington. Dryden, as he liked to say, grew up with aviation-and the U.S. Government's stake in it; his physicist's talents took him through virtually every major project beginning with the first significant research into air turbulence. He was slated to be NASA's chief when the space agency was formed in 1958, but then bluntly told an overanxious Congress that rushing a man into suborbital flight made no more sense than "shooting a woman...
...work as a $15-a-week clerk in a cotton brokerage house. Later he rose to a $60-a-week job in a commodities house, where he learned the intricacies of that gyrating business and discovered the secret that got him going: fortunes can be made on a meager stake in international trade. At 23, he invested $3,000 and started his own export-import business in a small Manhattan office. Within eight years he had bagged his first million by buying an awful lot of coffee from Brazil...