Word: developing
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More agreeable to some kinds of New Frontier legislation than the House, the Senate has passed the Administration's bill to help state and local governments develop mass-transportation facilities. It has also approved a Kennedy bill to set up a Youth Conservation Corps, plus a "home town" youth employment program. In the House, however, both measures seem likely to linger in the Rules Committee, headed by Virginia Democrat Howard W. Smith. The Senate also passed the Administration's area redevelopment bill, but the House voted it down...
Beckwith's paternal grandfather helped develop Lodi, Calif., south of Sacramento, where he served as the first postmaster. Beckwith's mother, one of Greenwood's prettiest, most popular girls, went to California to visit an aunt, married Beckwith's father, a real estate agent. "Delay" Beckwith was born in California...
Died. George Malvin Holley, 85, auto pioneer who in 1902 was asked by Henry Ford to design a fuel system, produced an "iron pot" carburetor to stoke the engines of 15 million model Ts (as well as Buicks, Pierce-Arrows, Winstons), went on in 1935 to develop the fuel system for the model T of aviation, the Douglas DC-3, and built his Holley Carburetor Co. to current sales of more than $50 million annually; after a long illness; in Detroit...
...strives hard to be a vamp, a loose woman who attracts men to her chamber like a queen bee, but the effect is rarely alluring, and occasionally ludicrous. When attempting satire, however, Miss Milgrim is more at home, her eyes and hands doing as much as her voice to develop the situation. Her bedroom scene in the second act is particularly fine...
...seventh president, and sixth male, to head Vassar, Historian Alan Simpson will concentrate on academic leadership. "While we have emancipated women, we have not made it possible for them to make full use of their potential. We need to give women more opportunities to develop their intellectual and esthetic potentialities...