Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FICTION 1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week) 2. The Eighth Day, Wilder (2) 3. Washington, D.C., Vidal (4) 4. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (3) 5. Tales of Manhattan, Auchincloss (7) 6. Valley of the Dolls, Susann 7. Capable of Honor, Drury (8) 8. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (9) 9. The Chosen, Potok (5) 10. Fathers, Gold...
...feeding. Not until the fifth and sixth grades does the course take up menstruation and reproduction. In Anaheim, Calif., whose program is considered one of the best in the U.S., instruction begins in the seventh grade, covering parent-child and sibling conflicts, physical changes in adolescence, and masturbation. The eighth grade takes up more physical changes, "problem-solving techniques" and dating. The ninth grade discusses going steady and premarital intercourse. The tenth grade deals with engagement and readiness for marriage. Eleventh-graders take up sexual relations in marriage and the causes and effects of divorce, and the twelfth grade continues...
...harassment is an effort to distract U.S. attention from South Viet Nam, the bigger reason for North Korea's provocations is to divert its own people's thoughts from their deepening economic troubles. "The Communist actions," says General Charles Bonesteel III, the United Nations and U.S. Eighth Army commander in Korea, "are nasty and vicious, but they amount largely to frustrated impotency...
...Eighth Wonder. A three-story aviary will be filled with macaws, two types of parrots and cock-of-the-rock birds; there is an indoor sidewalk cafe open 24 hours a day on the floor of the lobby, a saucer-shaped cocktail lounge perched on a column one floor above -and 20 lobby hostesses in gold uniforms to pass out room keys and arrange for shopping tours, beauty appointments and baby sitters. For good measure, the hotel is topped by a restaurant that revolves 360° each hour, on a clear day gives diners a view of the Blue Ridge...
...already paid off. Though the hotel has been accepting guests for only a month and will not open officially for another two weeks, it already has well over $30 million in advance bookings. Visitors' reactions to the courtyard range from "a fabulosity" (an Atlanta attorney) to "the eighth wonder of the world" (a Chicago businessman). Indeed, so many bowled-over guests blurt out "Jeez!"-or stronger-when they first gaze up into 21 stories of space that hotel employees have already dubbed the spot in the lobby where the full height is first glimpsed with a name...