Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plea for Understanding. "The Court is making decisions boom, boom, boom. Many of them are too absolute to fit a country of 190 million diverse people," frets a Yale professor. "Of all three branches of Government," says Republican Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater, "today's Supreme Court is the least faithful to the constitutional tradition of limited Government and to the principle of legitimacy in the exercise of power...
...BARRY GOLDWATER PSYCHOLOGICALLY FIT TO BE PRESIDENT? asked the full-page ads in the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and San Francisco News-Call Bulletin. Readers who went beyond that provocative question discovered that a magazine called Fact, which paid for the ads, had sought answers from the 12,356 psychiatrists listed by the American Medical Association. Last week Fact published the results...
...psychiatrist would respond at all to such an appeal, from such a quarter, is of itself fit subject for analysis. The simplest inquiry could have informed the doctors that Fact is the by-blow of Publisher Ralph Ginzburg, 35, whose first venture, Eros, was put out of business by the U.S. Post Office on 28 obscenity counts. Yet Ginzburg got 2,417 responses. And of these, two out of three were willing to have their names printed; all but 571 saw nothing wrong in judging Goldwater's mental balance without ever having examined the "patient...
...practice the hardest things incessantly. The third finger is seldom used, so I used it all the time. I concentrated on speed and technique, almost as ends in themselves. I aimed at scaring all the other bass players. One night, around 1940, all the pieces suddenly fit into place. It was suddenly me. It wasn't the bass any more...
...black-and-white to smaller screens, are developing 19-inch color tubes, and several companies are experimenting with 16-inch sets. Most of the new tubes cast images on the screen at a 90° angle instead of the usual 70°, can thus be made shorter to fit into cabinets less bulky than present TV sets. The smaller tubes and the proliferation of manufacturers should also help to bring color TV prices down...