Word: starting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PUBLIC WORKS. The rich aroma of pork converts even the most ardent budget cutters into big spenders. "Sometimes you have to put that feeling of economy behind you," said Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, pleading for a $400,000 appropriation to start a dam at Decatur Ill. Dirksen got what he wanted, as did the others from both parties who approved the $4.6 billion public-works bill for fiscal 1968. Among its many nonessentials is the Delaware River-Tocks Island park; projected costs for it have grown from $90 million to $198 million. Well over $1 billion in similar public...
...even as early as 50. Is this good? "No," said Manhattan's Dr. Irving S. Wright at last week's Houston meeting of the American Medical Association. Relatively few retired men are able to turn a former hobby or avocation into a new vocation and, in effect, start a new career to fill their lives. For the majority, early retirement is cruel. It may cover up to 30 years, or one-third of a man's whole life span. It is also, Dr. Wright argued, economically and socially unsound...
...attitudes," says Polish Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water). "When they are born with a TV set in their room-well-you can't fool them any more." Or at least, it might be added, not in the same way. Director Richard Lester, who got his start on TV, believes that television's abrupt leap from news about Viet Nam to Corner Pyle to toothpaste ads expands people's vision. "TV is best at those sudden shifts of reality. TV, not Last Year at Marienbad, made the audience notice them for the first time...
...federal law requiring registration of sales of "control" stock is believed to be violated frequently, and the case was a clear signal that the Government intends to start cracking down. For Multimillionaire Wolfson, who plans to appeal his conviction, the trouble could be just beginning. Next February he, Gerbert and three other associates go on trial - on federal charges of fraud, perjury and falsification of official reports-involving Merritt-Chapman, which is now in the process of liquidation. Insisted Wolfson in court last week: "I certainly never intended to do anything wrong...
...Carpenter Center exhibition hall, take a quick look around, and walk out. Whether a visitor is attracted by the shape of the hall of Le Corbusier's only building in this country, or the chairs on exhibition, or the manner of their presentation, he will surely find somewhere to start and more to keep him going...