Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past three years, and the musicians are pushing hard for 52. "Sure, the schedule is murderous," says A.P.M. President Herman Kenin. "But the goal is not 52 weeks but 52 checks. The musician has to pay the mortgage on his house, educate his children and feed his wife all year, not just 40 weeks...
...salvation for bright, needy students. In recent years, rising applications have forced tuition-free C.C.N.Y. to raise its admission standards ever higher. Meantime, poor Negroes and Puerto Ricans (now a majority in New York's public schools) have filled the slum high schools that once helped to feed the college. Lacking the stimulus of middle-class whites, who have moved elsewhere, the feeder schools have deteriorated. Despite huge enrollments, some of them now graduate as few as 15 college-qualified students a year. As a result of the population shift, C.C.N.Y. has become a white enclave in a black...
...instant. Last season, while aging superstars like Mickey Mantle were going into slow fadeouts, Ernie knocked in 83 runs and belted 32 home runs, the most he had hit in six years. Says Durocher: "I wish I knew what kind of pills he takes. I'd like to feed them to some of my other players...
...only way to progress toward a solution of the starvation problem is to feed only people who can help themselves. Each time we rush to counteract a famine, kill disease-carrying mosquitoes or build hospitals in a backward country we aggravate their own problem...
...Vigil. This time lag has enabled NASA to set up a reasonably reliable Solar Particle Alert Network (SPAN) to protect astronauts from the vagaries of the sun. SPAN consists of six observatories that monitor the sun 24 hours a day. During this week's Apollo flight, they will feed information into a space environment console in Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, where physicists and medical men will keep a constant vigil. In addition, Pioneer, Vela and other patrolling satellites will report any changes in solar radiation. Should SPAN report a suspicious-looking flare during the Apollo mission...