Word: summing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...merely gives a modern twist to the age-old missing-heir dodge. The twist is important. In the past, a con man would approach a few selected victims with a well-prepared line of talk and ask for a few hundred dollars to cover his expenses. The large sum requested required a risky in-person performance. A promoter of the new scheme can use a photocopy machine and the mails to approach thousands of potential customers. All he has to do is follow the local probate court proceedings and then use phone books from all over the U.S. to find...
...surface. Or a brain surgeon may have at his fingertips the means to see, in 3D, a deep, tiny tumor that even modern X-ray techniques could not detect. Such far-out capabilities are now within reach thanks to Scientists Alexander Metherell, John Dreher, Lewis Laramore and Hussein El-Sum, of the McDonnell Douglas Corp.'s Advanced Research Laboratories at Huntington Beach, Calif. Last week, writing in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Metherell and his collaborators described the method-called acoustical holography...
...Edifice Complex." Lately, Ahmanson has been building monuments as well. He contributed $2,000,000 to help construct the Los Angeles Music Center for the Performing Arts, an equal sum for the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art; he also endowed the Ahmanson Center for Biological Research at the University of Southern California. Last month he announced plans for a 40-story office block on Wilshire Boulevard designed by Manhattan Architect Edward Durell Stone. With two marble-clad, ten-story outriders, the Ahmanson Center will cost $75 'million. Though some of his competitors like to wisecrack about...
...Gerttown. Gerttown is one of the city's pocket ghettos--rows of low level shabby brick buildings squashed together inside a wall of light industry. But even in these wards Smith was defeated by a Catholic candidate whose campaign tactics were to approach the local priest with a certain sum of money. New Orleans is ninety per cent Catholic. "I tried to speak to the priests but they wouldn't see me. They had obviously been told not to have anything to do with me," he sighed. "That's the kind of thing we're up against...
...energies if I hadn't dissipated them," says Buckley. "Would the world have been better off if I had written more books instead of columns?" Besides, he adds, "I reproach myself more than they do when I think of all the sailing I might have done." The sum total of his activities has nevertheless left its mark. He has certainly given conservatism a sheen of articulateness and thoughtfulness it has not always had. "The average American," says Ohio Congressman John M. Ashbrook, "thinks that conservatives are dour, always griping and clipping coupons. Bill puts down that notion...