Word: magic
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Magic Figure. In St. Louis, in a speech to a Junior Chamber of Commerce convention, Nixon took an outspoken stand on a major campaign issue, the "growth" debate. A report by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund set the growth issue fluttering in the political winds in 1958 by urging that the U.S. adopt as a national goal an economic growth rate of 5% a year-as against the average 3% a year over the past half-century, and the roughly 4% a year that economists estimate for the 1960s. Nelson Rockefeller still stands foursquare on a need for a forced growth...
...deceased policemen and firemen). As his 60th birthday came upon him last week, Rodecker decided that it was time to pamper himself a little, so he and his wife went off on a three-day holiday to celebrate. Off to New York City they went, to enjoy the bright magic of the town-the many-splendored hotels, the glittering shows, the restaurants, the incredible traffic and the cockeyed tempo, the funny things and the sad things that always seem to happen to people. They took a $50-a-day suite at the Plaza, and set out to have themselves...
...noted that patients who swallowed dihydroxyacetone developed stained teeth. So Andre tried the chemical, and Man-Tan was the result. So successful has it proved (6,000,000 bottles sold in six months, worth $20 million retail) that it has spawned a host of cosmetic competitors: Tan-O-Rama, Magic Tan, Tanfastic, Tansation...
...colleges are in an even more difficult spot than you pointed out. Besides needing common magic to separate the Cream from the cream, they have to perform the arcane wizardry which separates those who really want an Ivy education (of which there still aren't enough) from those who just want Ivy. LEWIS C. CADY '59 Brown University Providence...
...musical play in an off-Broadway theater used to be as out of place as a Rolls-Royce in a one-car garage. Exceptions came along: Once Upon a Mattress climbed the magic money tree to Broadway, and The Threepenny Opera revival is now five years old and practically a city park. But overwhelmingly, the tenpenny impresarios preferred to stick to drama, shying from competition with Broadway's big, corporate musicals, which approach high finance with their million-dollar advance sales and use stars whose fees recall the lifetime winnings of Whirlaway. This season, the off-Broadway producers finally...