Word: dials
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Birny Mason Jr., 51, was named president of Union Carbide, the nation's second-largest chemical firm (1959 sales: $1.5 billion). He takes over from Howard S. Bunn, 60, who moves into the newly created post of vice chairman and is in line to succeed Morse G. Dial, 64, as board chairman and chief executive offi cer. Cornell-educated ('31) Birny Mason started out in research and production, moved into administration five years...
...which they could receive messages from 6,000 miles away without resurfacing. They became adept at using Polaris' SINS (Ships Inertial Navigation System), the mare's nest of gyros and electronic equipment that locates George Washington on a precise spot on the globe so that she can dial infinitely accurate directions into her missiles. There were star-tracking periscopes and radiometric sextants for checking on the SINS; there was secret optical alignment gear for checking on the missiles in their 16 silos; there was rack on rack of fire-control computers-and mastery meant constant schooling, constant practice...
...shaker. He early recognized and utilized the latent strength of Harlem, was able to force such commercial giants as Liggett Drug stores and Consolidated Edison to employ Negroes. When the New York Telephone Co. balked at his demands, Powell threatened to disrupt the system by instructing his followers to dial the operator for every telephone call they made. The telephone company promptly capitulated, began to hire Negroes. "Negroes have got to be radicals," Powell shouted from the pulpit and the political platform. "Only radical measures can liberate...
...curriculum ("learning through play") has not changed in 100 years. But "today's fives are tired of play; they are eager and ready to begin serious work." They have been exposed to travel, nursery schools and working mothers. They visit the public library and fly in airplanes. They dial the telephone, operate hi-fi sets and read words on TV. Yet teachers persist in mindless "fun"-and leave the kids sucking their thumbs...
...Revisited. If the Second City comedians have a trademark, it is "The Living Newspaper," a flexible skit touched off by items in the press. When discoveries of police corruption recently scandalized the Chicago area from Cicero to Lake Forest, a Second City actress would rush onstage each night, frantically dial a number and say: "Hello, FBI? There's a policeman hanging around in front of my house." Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd is nightly impersonated in a minstrel show, puts on blackface and sings: "How I love to pick old massa's cotton." But "the thing...