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...economy as housing, furniture, appliances, apparel, autos and financial services. Already this group spends 50% more than the average consumer for furniture and one-third more for appliances. John Widdicomb Co., a top-of-the-line furniture manufacturer, has increased its advertising to attract these people, while Chicago's John M. Smyth Co. retail furniture chain has expanded its interior decorating services to appeal to the more sophisticated customer entering early middle...
...years ago, everyone wanted to be young, but now people just want to stay active and attractive." Tennis clubs, exercise salons and racquetball courts are proliferating, largely because physical fitness has become a priority, not to say mania, with yesterday's youth. Reports Denise Bourcq, manager of Chicago's Gloria Marshall Figure Salon: "The majority of women we see are between 30 and 45." Even Geritol, that elixir of the sunset years, has aimed for some time now at a younger, still attractive woman who wants to hold on to her health...
Johnson's educational use of TV is based on something called Prime Time School Television (PTST), a Chicago-based, nonprofit organization that prepares TV-related study guides. And PTST illustrates the general principle of prime-time teaching: use the screen to get students' attention, then engage their intelligence with questions, study guides and sometimes scripts read as homework. Thereafter, Archie Bunker's layoff from his job on the loading dock can be used to prompt a class discussion of unemployment. An arrest by Starsky and Hutch helps illustrate constitutional guarantees like that of a suspect...
Geraldine Cannon, now a surgical nurse at Skokie Valley Community Hospital in Illinois, wanted to become a doctor. But when she applied to the University of Chicago and Northwestern medical schools in 1974, Cannon, then 39 and a senior at Trinity College (Illinois), was told that anyone over the age of 30 had little chance of being admitted. This struck her as unfair to women, who are more likely than men to take time off from education to raise a family. Herself a grandmother, Cannon complained to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
What worried Justice Lewis Powell, who dissented from the majority, is that there will be too many suits from frustrated applicants, and that universities will be forced to base admission solely on objective criteria, like grades and entrance exam scores, rather than more flexible human judgment. That way, explains Chicago Medical School Dean Robert Uretz, "if you get accused of discriminating, you can say, 'Well, look at the scores.'" In fact, says Uretz, if Cannon is judged purely by her scores she stands no chance of getting in: there were 2,000 applicants with better academic qualifications than...