Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest apocryphal story going the rounds: Churchill, returning from a vacation on the Continent, was asked how he felt. He replied: "Very fit. Have to be. Anthony's getting...
...Norman Leyden, musical director of CBS's The $64,000 Question, helpfully enumerated the types of music required for a big giveaway show. Included are: 1) "Playon music." to fit the personality of the contestant as he comes on stage; 2) "Sorting and Punching music," to fit the mechanical gyrations of the IBM machine as it picks out the card containing questions; 3) "Thinking music," to match the cerebrations of the contestant as he tries to come up with the right answer; and 4) "Cold-Sweat music," to match the audience mood as the contestant broods inside the illuminated...
...Hollywood version of the tycoon, but he would not. The unwritten law demands that such a grave personal decision be discussed up and down the committees. A divisional vice president with the prestige of Buick's Ivan Wiles spends a huge operating budget as he sees fit, and goes to the top only when he thinks his actions might affect the other divisions, or when he wants new capital...
Women with the talent for raising the tantrum to an art form and the conniption fit to a way of life seem to work terrible powers of posthumous hypnosis upon their biographers...
...equals last year's payroll for full-time teachers with undergraduate students. The grant must be held intact for ten years, and the interest from it must be used to raise faculty salaries. After ten years the principal of the grant may be spent as the school sees fit. In addition to the $210 million, 126 of the 615 schools will get $50 million in "accomplishment grants" to reward them for the efforts they have made on their own to better their professors' lots. Since these institutions must be primarily concerned with the liberal arts, such schools...