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Before the French Revolution it was the accepted responsibility of well-heeled aristocrats to pick up the tab for the creative arts, enabling them to flourish without financial cares. As ballet's reigning Lady Bountiful, Rebekah Harkness is a throwback-in the best sense-to those gallant times...
POLITICAL debate has not always steamed the windows and bored the ascetes of college dining halls. In fact, the tab collar set of the '50's were just so un-radical they were dubbed "The Silent Generation." Growing up under McCarthyism, they had an instinctive fear of speaking out against the status quo. The newness of the hydrogen bomb and the strength of the Communist monolith validated the Cold War with an incredible rationality...
...pack, conventioneers visiting the Big Town can pay the big price at the New York Hilton newsstand-52? for nonfilter regulars, 53? for other kinds-and get some big lip too. "Because that's what we charge!" jeers the counterman at anyone who questions the tab...
...home office, and many big companies these days go out of their way to make the uprooting process as painless as possible. They not only pay all moving costs, often including temporary hotel quarters in the new town for two months or longer, but frequently pick up the tab for new drapes. Many even buy up an executive's old house if he has difficulty getting the price he wants in a hurry. But even with company backing, the search for a new house is a pins-and-needles operation for the whole family...
...meet that goal, constant redesigning was necessary, and prices soared. McNamara had originally estimated that one F-111A would cost $2.9 million; its current price tab is approximately $7,000,000, and the Navy version may cost as much as $10 million because of expensive weight-cutting programs and more complex missile systems. Despite the extra costs, the Air Force's F-111A currently is capable of making only a 100-mile low-level supersonic dash, and the Navy's model is still 7,000 Ibs. too heavy for optimum carrier use. The Air Force feels that...