Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years old. Giving up temporarily after their one previous effort, a 1949 single-seater that flew "like a crippled bird," the two partners began to concentrate on building up what became a worldwide crop-spraying business. They were waiting, says Norman, "until we could see a really good gap in the market before working ourselves up into the necessary frenzy to build another plane...
...Attitude Gap...
...attitude gap made an explosion inevitable. It came finally during a community meeting now shudderingly referred to around the Ed School as "the January 10 Conference...
...young are used to having their complaints acted on instantly. "They are the babies who were picked up," notes Harvard's David Riesman. They have less direction than previous generations, are challenged by their parents to think for themselves. For all the rather exaggerated talk of the generation gap, American student activists tend not so much to defy their parents as to emulate them. And their parents are inclined to approve of what they are doing...
...gave their blessing to open competition between amateurs and pros. No amateur, they said, could hope to beat the older, more experienced pros. Last week, in the British Hard Court Championships at Bournemouth, England-the world's first open tournament-an obscure British amateur proved that the talent gap may not be so big after all. On successive afternoons, Mark Cox, 24, who was not even considered good enough to play singles for the British Davis Cup team, upset two of the game's biggest names: the U.S.'s Pancho Gonzales, 39, king of the pros...