Word: working
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...music (for the first three semesters), plus two weekly seminars on the great books. Friday nights they hear a lecture or concert by such visitors as Mortimer Adler and the Juilliard String Quartet. Lest all of this seem medieval, St. John's boasts "more required mathematics and laboratory work than any other liberal arts college in the country...
...seemed slightly pretentious when Neiman-Marcus was founded in 1907 by Stanley's father, Herbert Marcus, and his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Neiman. It was doing all right in 1926, with sales of $2,600,000, when Harvard-educated Stanley, then 21, went to work in the store's fur shop. Then the luxury goods really began to move. The year before the shop had sold only $74,000 worth of pelts. Using the casual, low-pressure manner that he still assumes behind a counter, he sold $74,000 in furs in his first...
...newest example of the Irish government's successful campaign to lure in foreign industries to bolster the island's faltering economy. Principally agricultural, Ireland has provided so few jobs that each year as many as 40,000 Irishmen immigrate, mainly to the U.S. and Canada, to find work. Two years ago, the government put together an appealing package. To the foreign industrialist, it grants a ten-year tax exemption on export profits and offers to pay the full cost of training the workers (average wage: $29 for a 44-hr, week), plus 50% of the cost...
...Convair's Atlas missile program. But his blunt criticism of the Administration's defense effort and sharp attacks on rival missilemakers provoked General Dynamics Chairman Frank Pace to ease him out. On his own, Lanphier stumped the country, pleading for increased spending for missiles, decided to work outside the defense field, took a job as vice president for planning at Fairbanks Whitney, which does only 5% of its business with the Government and which has been in the process of reorganization ever since the Morse family was forced out in a proxy fight two years...
Camelot. While failing to live up to its extravagant expectations and to the richness of the Arthurian legend, the Lerner-Loewe work has sumptuous sets, a few fine songs, some stylishly medieval choreography and an expert performance by Richard Burton...