Word: footings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flubdubs & Mollycoddles. Name calling is a time-honored sport among Americans where their Presidents are concerned. George Washington was called a crook and the "stepfather of his country." It was said of John Adams that "the cloven foot is in plain sight." Jefferson was berated as a mean-spirited hypocrite, Jackson as a murderer and adulterer, Lincoln as a baboon. With rare elegance, Teddy Roosevelt called Woodrow Wilson "a Byzantine logothete* backed by flubdubs and mollycoddles. " When the Depression laid Herbert Hoover low, newspapers were called "Hoover blankets," and a "Hoover flag" was an empty pocket turned inside...
...golden middle road that pleased audiences everywhere-on million-seller records (Whispering), radio, TV, nightclubs and the concert stage. He took chances on new music (Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue) and new musicians (Tommy Dorsey, Jack Teagarden), but his staple was rich, smooth orchestration that kept his foot-long baton in motion until 1961, when he retired to his Bucks County home, Coda, so named for the last few bars on a musical score...
...techniques as well as "effective listening," the program has drawn more than 500,000 students from such companies as Pfizer, General Electric, Burlington Industries and Eastern Airlines. Just Like Golf. Eying the $6 billion to $8 billion a year that companies now spend on training programs, Xerox got a foot in the classroom door when it bought a Cambridge, Mass, outfit called Basic Systems Inc. three years ago for $5,600,000. Founded by a group of behavioral psychologists at work on applying modern teaching theory to classroom usage, Basic Systems has quadrupled its revenues to some $4 million...
...Lions, underdogs in all three games they played, knocked off West Virginia, 88-71, Louisville, 74-67, and St. John's. 60-55, to win the tournament. They were led by sensational sophomore Jim McMillian, who was voted the tournament's Most Valuable Player. Columbia also boasts 7-foot center Dave New-mark on a team that may threaten Princeton's domination over Ivy basketball this year...
...close is the car to production? The company has only half a dozen staffers on the project, can hardly foot the bill for a crash program. Though A.M.C. won special congressional legislation last week providing a tax rebate that may be worth as much as $20 million, and successfully negotiated a one-year extension of a $65 million bank loan, it lost $75.8 million in fiscal 1967. And development of the Amitron has a way to go. The car rolled out last week was a prototype with no power plant. First road tests of the power plant will come next...