Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worked as an office boy and press agent. But Davis is a man in a hurry. He leapfrogged to the top of Gulf & Western over two more senior executives after the death of conglomerateur Charles Bluhdorn. It took Davis just six years to transform Gulf & Western from an unwieldy, 1960s-style pastiche of unrelated companies into the more focused media giant that he renamed Paramount Communications the day before he launched his bid for Time Inc. He is fond of exhorting his employees to "lead, follow...
What leads a writer to choose his specialty? For Andrew Tobias, it was his experience as a part-time entrepreneur at Harvard in the late 1960s. Joining in several college-run ventures, he rented refrigerators to dorm dwellers and helped write the popular Let's Go: The Student Guide to Europe. Says Tobias: "I learned a lot in a short time, but I decided that I have more fun writing about business than trying...
...wasn't always that bad in East St. Louis. Katherine Dunham, a grande dame of the dance, was able to operate a studio in the city in the late 1960s. Heptathlon gold medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee recalls a happy childhood there and still returns occasionally from the West Coast to visit friends. But today the hottest ticket in East St. Louis is a ticket out of it. The two high schools produce perennial state champions in football and basketball, putting - a few gifted athletes on the road to college, hoping for stardom in the N.F.L. or N.B.A. For other youngsters...
Wilson: It's important, I think, to remember that Harvard's low rate is linked to its unusual way of tenuring faculty...The number of women who received Ph.Ds in the 1970s and 1960s was not high, and people who are tenured are senior in age. It takes a while for that pool to go through the system. I will be delighted when the workforce in academia is more evenly distributed. I think it will be beneficial for students and certainly beneficial for scholarship in general. I'm not knowledgeable enough about Harvard to know if it is an unusual...
Again, the question turns on the problem of whether a system geared toward those who have long been in the country essentially discriminates against a people who by law could not emigrate freely into the U.S. before the 1960s. And who decides on "diversity," such as exemplified by athletic ability...