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...herself to a mammoth $7.5 million fund-raising drive to complement a gift from the Ford Foundation for undergraduate dormitory housing. Her plans fail to deal with the vital question of whether girls should be forced to live in the clearly restrictive, prep-school atmosphere of a dormitory, however lavish, rather than in the free environment of an apartment of off-campus house...
...Command) and one civilian (NASA), with the gigantic national industrial complex shifting as best it could between them. There should be a single program, with military and civilian correlatives and applications. This thesis was looked upon by many as heretical. But this program duplication, which perhaps constituted merely a lavish logistical travesty in 1962, may have materially contributed to a loss of lives...
...Bell & Howell, Roberts joined Ampex in 1961 after the loosely managed company had tumbled deep into the red. Many of Roberts' remedies were routine: he centralized administrative control, for example, and lopped off unprofitable product lines. Yet, despite Ampex' shortage of cash, Roberts also ordered a lavish step-up in research and development spending. R. & D. engineers and scientists were set to work on so many new projects that snickering critics took to calling Ampex "the model shop...
...legislators worry about accepting expense-account meals or attending lavish parties. Paid hotel suites, rides in company planes, weekends or vacations can be a little trickier. Practically every member of Congress has some wealthy friends and acquaintances, many of them with country houses where a legislator can recuperate from the Washington wear and tear. Indiana's Charles Halleck, onetime Republican House minority leader, judiciously chooses speaking dates in localities near hunting or fishing lodges owned by his longtime friends, to which he can slip away once his political appearance is done with...
...very wrong. There are two fundamental ways of approaching The Magic Flute: either as a symbolic, deeply philosophical work, as Oskar Kokoschka attempted (unsuccessfully) in his stolidly realistic sets for the Lyric Opera of Chicago in November; or as straight fairy tale, as Beni Montresor tried (successfully) in his lavish scenery for the New York City Opera in October. Chagall strove to incorporate both approaches and achieved neither. He viewed the opera in terms of color, reiterating that the total effect of the scenery should be "like a bouquet of flowers." When the opera finally opened last week, Chagall...