Word: paste
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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President Bunting confided that in the past year the college has raised over $1 million for "long range improvements in buildings and educational facilities. And she also promised that the Administration would be receptive to ideas and suggestions from the students through the recently created President's Advisory Committee...
...Eisenhower-Nixon Administration has failed us for the past 7½ years. We are now behind Russia in the space race, ballistic missile production and development, education, military manpower, and speed of economic growth. Developments in Cuba, Japan, Latin America and the Middle East have shocked us. We cannot afford to continue this dangerous drift. To lead us in the next four years we must have new faces in the White House-those of Kennedy and Johnson...
STUDEBAKER-PACKARD CORP. bought Clarke Floor Machine Co. for about $4,000,000. Purchase allows S-P to offset Clarke's profits against its own massive tax losses. It is fourth Studebaker-Packard acquisition in past 16 months and first since Clarence Francis moved in as chairman to speed up diversification...
...economy has paused for breath, seems to be going nowhere in particular. Some economists are once again talking about a mature economy, worry that there are no new breakthroughs in sight to give the nation a great forward push such as the auto and electronics did. But the past shows that such worries about the future are groundless. The pace of research is such that man's next great discovery may come next month, next week-or tomorrow...
...Marquand's last book is not a novel, but it is only his novelist's hand that saves it from being merely a literary curiosity. Good family boy that he was, Marquand never lost his gossip's and antiquarian's interest in the past of Newburyport, Mass., a place that was never long out of his thoughts in fact or in fiction. In 1925, before he had written anything better than hack historicals, he dusted off some old documents, ran down some dubious legends and wrote a book about a fascinating 18th century eccentric, Lord Timothy...