Word: finer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weight class, Ken Hurwitz (Leverett) who had the fastest pin in last year's matches, will meet Jeff Eustis of Lowell. In the 130-lb. division, Barry Finer (Winthrop) and Bill Diercks (Quincy) will meet...
...before in the morning, but slackens during the afternoon in anticipation of the 7-p.m. curfew. The black market is still operating, but business is off by about 50%. About 70% of the sidewalk shops and stalls have reopened, most for only half a day; many of the finer shops still remain closed. Money is circulating freely and most Saigonese seem to trust its worth, since there has been little upsurge in bartering. Phone service has been restored, and so has electric power-though it remains as unreliable as before, winking off in some part of town almost every night...
HENRIK: They are divine, they can divine. They sense imminent death and latent power. What finer efflorescence than a woman free of duty's tyranny...
Lucy & Fred. Sagan's views are in the minority, but on one point most educators agree: Video Boy is becoming a sort of peewee pundit. He knows, for example, the finer points of docking in outer space, can distinguish Bach from Bartok, and is a storehouse of such miscellany as the fact that whales' backs get sunburned and peel. When he enters school, his vocabulary will be at least one year ahead of the pre-TV child. On the nursery-type show Romper Room, a teacher once asked her toddlers if anyone could think of a word beginning...
Best of Both. Although salaries at state universities still lag behind those at the top private schools, the best public institutions can now get the best professors-a fact witnessed by academic recognition of Berkeley as a finer all-round school on the graduate level than Harvard. Massachusetts now pays full professors an average $17,300-and President John Lederle is an aggressive raider of private-university faculties. Among his recent catches: University of Chicago Mathematician Marshall Harvey Stone, N.Y.U. Botanist Oswald Tippo, Yale Physicist Robert Gluckstern and lohns Hopkins Astrophysicist John D. Strong, who brought...