Word: exact
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard runner, of course, is dependent on an "athletic scholarship," and so could never be in this exact dilemma. But responsibility to a team can be as binding as money, and if the meet were Harvard-Yale and the squeeze was on Englishman Jim Baker, Crimson coach Bill McCurdy admits that the balancing would be mighty fine. As it is, McCurdy has to judge between the team's versus the individual's interests several times a season when a key runner is lightly injured. Are the potential points worth the risk of greater injury...
Prison Peerage. It is, in fact, a prison society dominated by the "toughs": hard cases who exact tribute in the form of sex and tobacco from the rank-and-file riffraff. It is intensely snobbish. "Crashers" (burglars) will not talk to pimps. Prestige is based on length of term, and a prison peerage goes to anyone who has served on Devil's Island or Cayenne (the now extinct French penal colonies...
...than the location of any movie since Nanook of the North. Financial Frankness. Barred from the film's proper location of Haiti because of the novel's distinct unfriendliness toward Haitian Dictator Francois Duvalier, Comedians' Producer-Director Peter Glenville and his company found a surprisingly exact replica in Dahomey. Cotonou is a jerry-built outcropping of grandiose, half-filled government buildings and a splendid four-lane boulevard that runs straight and proud to the weeds and sand at the city's edge. The one major difference is that Dahomey's strongman, President Christophe Soglo, held...
When the first reports and photos came in from Down Under, U.S. naval architects-discounted the idea of anything radical in Dame Pattie-except for a rudder that is wider at the head than at the heel. "Her deck plan is almost an exact reproduction of the Constellation's"-the U.S. boat that won the America's Cup in 1964-said Olin Stephens, who designed Constellation and the newest U.S. twelve-meter, Intrepid. But Stephens had second thoughts. "I wish I could see," he said, "what makes Pattie so fast...
...that national testing is more likely to help local taxpayers use their schools more effectively than to give the Federal Government more influence. Opponents of assessment, insists Columbia Teachers College President John Fischer, are "suggesting that the more we know, the worse we might behave." Fischer proposes that the exact opposite is closer to the truth...