Word: happening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...break into. "Most of them just sleep in the park; after a few nights of that you will go home with anyone-you don't even look," says Manhattan Hippie Jim Fouratt. "They are exploited by all kinds of people," says Fouratt, "and what's going to happen when winter comes and they can't sleep in the park?" Not that sleeping in the park is any too healthy in summer: last week a 15-year-old runaway from upstate New York was raped by two young Negroes and her 17-year-old "flower husband" (known...
...GAME, by Julio Cortazar. Fifteen eerie stories, among them the brief vignette that ballooned into the movie Blow-Up. All of them deal with today's fashionable fictional hang-ups: Did it happen or didn't it? Is this a daydream or a nightmare...
...Aside from the cloud regulation, no federal or state agency pays much attention. The theory apparently is that the only lives parachutists risk are their own. But that is a dubious assumption. At least it is to the Airline Pilots Association, which grimly speculated last week on what would happen if some day a skydiver plummeting gaily down from 20,000 ft. should slam into the windshield, wing or tail assembly of a passenger-laden airliner...
...Recover From. "Jackson's trouble," says a sympathetic lawyer who has been in and out of the case, "is that he sat on his duff right up until the last minute. In his blustering frontier way, he didn't figure anything could happen to a guy of his wealth over so small a sum owed." Now, in all likelihood, there isn't anyone for him to recover from any more. Primock is dead, and Sears has already successfully contended that it did not know of or endorse any of Primock's actions. Besides, Jackson no longer...
...Holt claims, not only induces fear and discourages experimentation but leads to a concentration on answers rather than problems-and it is "dishonest and the students know it." Teachers coach the kids for the tests and care more about "the appearance" of knowledge than for real understanding. "What would happen," Holt asks, "at Harvard or Yale if a prof gave a surprise test in March on work covered in October? Everyone knows what would happen; that's why they don't do it." In this "temple of worship for right answers, the way to get ahead...