Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...caught up by the patient, plodding groundwork laid by Prosecutor Frank Schaub, 45. In contrast with the flamboyant forensics of F. Lee Bailey, 33, Coppolino's cocky Boston attorney, Schaub wove a damning case showing that Coppolino had the motive, opportunity and, most of all, the scientific background for committing the murder...
...sweet Slavic charm and a rosy-cheeked, auburn-haired innocence, despite her first exposure to a free press and although one reporter was frisked by private detectives on the way in. She also displayed a dedication to liberty that stood in sharp if glossy contrast to her family background. More surprising was her spirited defense of her father-a demonstration that even a dictator with the blood of some 9,000,000 kulaks and political enemies on his hands can be a decent daddy...
...power with him in the new government are Brigadier General Stylianos Pattakos, 54, who as Minister of the Interior is in charge of security and moral uplift, and Colonel Nicholas Makarezos, fiftyish, who will run-or try to run-Greece's economic affairs. The triumvirate nudged into the background Lieut. General Gregorios E. Spandidakis, 57, the former army chief of staff who was recruited after the coup had already started in order to ensure top-level army cooperation. Likewise, Premier Constantine Kollias emerged as nothing more than a civilian front man for the military rulers...
Surveyor had serious reasons for its frisky behavior. Rotating a series of color filters in front of its TV camera, it shot pictures of the soil scattered on its white footpad-which made an ideal photographic background. Scientists will compare the shade of the soil in black and white pictures with a color-coded wheel that is attached to Surveyor's leg and is visible in each picture. From the comparison, they hope to determine the approximate color of the soil. "We placed the soil just where we wanted it," said Caltech Engineer Ronald Scott, who supervised the experiment...
Most educators today also see sound psychological reasons for mixed classes. "The mix tones up the give and take, furnishes a broader view," argues Webster College Vice President Joseph Kelly. Vassar's Simpson notes that "the more diversity in background and point of view that comes out in a classroom, the richer the experience." Catholic educators, who have traditionally been wary about the "dangers" of too much sexual intermingling in classes, also concede that coeducation provides students with a sounder basis for marriage. The mixed campus provides a meshing of intellectual and social life in which the boys find...