Word: standardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mooing Herd. He was not alone. As budgetary meetings of the full Cabinet approached their 24th hour, the Evening Standard reported that "the whole mooing herd of the government's once-sacred cows was driven to 10 Downing Street." The result, said the Standard, was "much slaughtering." If Wilson was stripping defense to placate the "mini-England" wing of his Labor Party, he was also tightening plenty of belts among the social services. Education Minister Patrick Gordon Walker described the sessions as "heartbreaking," and Minister of Arts Jennie Lee threatened to resign-and perhaps drag others with...
...Cleveland steelworker and retired to East Palo Alto, Calif. After a November episode of heart failure, he was admitted to Stanford Medical Center on Jan. 5, in desperate plight. When Kasperak asked his wife, Feme, what she thought about a transplant, she gave what has fast become the standard answer of the Barnard era: "Go ahead-I want you alive with...
Specials. Some of the changes in viewing patterns reflect the tastes of the generation raised on TV, who, given a better choice, have made it clear that they would rather switch than watch the standard run of series. Other changes stem from the extraordinary popularity of movies. This fall, when NBC begins running feature films on Monday evenings, there will be a prime-time movie on TV every night of the week. What with the steady rise in sports coverage, television may soon be dominated by Hollywood and halfbacks...
...Brown and Bamberg-born Walter Boveri, the firm got going with a felicitous marriage. Boveri's father-in-law, a wealthy Zurich silk merchant, provided the partners with an initial $170,000 stake. But technology was B.B.C.'s real dowry. The firm built a pioneering standard-gauge electric locomotive in 1899, rolled a long way with the expansion of European railroads, and soon began turning out early designs in circuit breakers, turbines and other heavy gear. And while its labs now work on cryogenics, lasers and other new technologies, B.B.C. continues to improve the old ones. A recent...
Virginia-born Davies joined Standard Oil of California as an office boy at 17 after graduating from high school in Fresno; he rose to be a director at 32 and senior vice president at 38. Though many oilmen had tagged him as a future president, Davies and Standard parted company after his wartime service as Deputy Petroleum Coordinator under the industry's old scourge, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes. Davies then founded American Independent Oil Co. (he has since sold his interest in it), later bought control of American President Lines and San Francisco's Natomas Co., which dredges...