Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea: "James M. Curley was a great man, a good man." George Donelan, a former Boston College football star (center and team captain, 1945), agreed in rhyme: "A fine idea deserving the support of one and all/ To the grandest mayor to sit in city hall." From darkest Chicago, far from the hub of the solar system, former Harvard Running Back Edward Cronin chimed in, "I proudly wish to add my name to the growing rolls...
...When, in the 1950s," the letter began, "Robert Hutchins was haled before a congressional committee and asked if it was true that the University of Chicago taught communism, he replied, 'Yes. And in the medical school we teach cancer...
Like many Harvard-related stories, the article on Raiffa's course intrigued much of the news media, and soon The Boston Globe, Newsweek, the Chicago Sun-Times, The Detroit News, the wire services, and other newspapers and business publications picked up on the story. Why all the fuss? Raiffa's course pairs students off and places them into actual negotiating situations, where they use and analyze real bargaining techniques. One of these techniques--the one emphasized in the Journal article--is known as "strategic misrepresentation," or more simply, lying...
...show's gimmick is its three anchormen, Frank Reynolds in Washington, Peter Jennings in Europe (Monday night it was London) and Max Robinson in Chicago (Monday night he did not appear). They anchor the broadcast because, as the advertisements put it, they are where the news is being made. The multi-anchor system attempts to capitalize on the television audience's presumed inability to concentrate on one subject at a time. The constant motion, supposedly, generates pace and action. The idea is a waste--anchormen rarely leave their offices, and their sole purpose is to introduce the film segments...
...came Chicago's The $1.98 Beauty Show on channel ten, WJAR in Providence, R.I. To say that this program is a spin-off of The Gong Show might tell you something, but not enough. An announcer says at the beginning that the show "is a search for the most beautiful girl in the world." Rip Taylor, a manic comedian, of no recognizable talent, hosts this obscenity in which six women, all of whom possess significantly less talent than Taylor, publicly humiliate themselves for a half-hour until a panel of "celebrities" (Edward Winter, Fred Travelena and "Dr." Joyce Brothers) judges...