Word: gee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest brainstorm: a revolutionary new rear-view mirror for automobiles. "Suddenly I got the idea, what a great thing to see over the top of the car instead of having to see through all those heads and seats and blind spots inside the car. I thought, 'Gee whiz, Karl, here's opportunity knocking at the back door, success. Invent over-the-top rear vision and make money fast...
Hiking Around Seattle. Raised as an only child in California and Washington State, Ehrlichman exudes the calm folksiness of the West. "I have never heard him raise his voice," says Cole. "He might say something like, 'Gee, I don't like the way that went,' but he never sounds excited." Friends concur, and one suggests that possibly his faith as a Christian Scientist has something to do with his steady optimism. The father of five and a dedicated family man, he has imbued his children with his own love of the outdoors, and before moving...
...fine: 95% of those successfully treated during their two weeks at the foundation report continuing success after five years. Without question the large majority of cases treated by the foundation showed some improvement, however modest. "The level of discovery," says Virginia Johnson, "is often quite phenomenal. It's like 'Gee, oh, gee whiz'?almost that ridiculous?'I felt...
...took 31 years and $60,000 in foundation grants. Last summer the educators and architects formed GEE! (the Group for Environmental Education) to work out, says GEE! Vice President William Chapman, a complete teaching program and to distribute the book. All 20,000 copies have since been sold (at cost) to schools in Philadelphia-plus Houston, San Mateo, Columbus, Ohio, and six cities in New Jersey. Despite its grade school language, the book is used by sophomores studying architecture at the University of North Dakota...
...GEE! already has a series of similar workbooks in progress. "What we are trying to do is develop a program that gets students to recognize that the man-made environment is more than just dirty air and water pollution," explains Architect Richard Wurman. "In effect, we see the program as an invitation to a marvelous, continuous visual party." If GEE! succeeds, the day may come when kids will know why man-made America is ugly. Better still, they may know how to clean up the visual mess...