Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came early. He was a promising athlete in his youth-a rugged bull of a kid who was forever picking fights with his grade-school classmates, later channeled his energies into football in Massillon, Ohio. His athletic promise faded tragically when, at 15, he came in contact with a high-tension wire. The accident mangled his left hand, severely creased his skull, left him incapacitated for two years. Since then, Big Smitty has flung his vast enthusiasm into an overwhelming admiration for other athletes...
...eight feet apart. If listener and speakers are positioned correctly, there seems to issue from the wall a wave of what is known as stereophonic sound. Nothing has so excited listeners and record makers since, more than a decade ago, the long-playing disk ushered in the Age of High Fidelity. Stereophony's extra clarity and depth have not had the immediate impact on the public that high-fidelity sound did, but it is a major and startling improvement in home listening...
Packaged stereo sets all ready to plug in now come as low as $39.95 for a portable unit (the tone is apt to be as strident as a bluejay's cry), or as high as $2,500. Between the two extremes are dozens of sets in the $100 to $500 range, many of which make for better listening than more expensive monophonic units. Thinking of the already cluttered American living room, manufacturers also offer "self-contained stereo"-units with both speakers housed in a single cabinet. But two-speaker cabinets, unless they are six to eight feet long...
Even the bush-league hams who stick to the tank towns eat high on around $12,000 a year. Everywhere the violent routine is just about the same: drop kicks that could snap a man's neck if the act were honest and they really landed in the face, bullet heads pounded boomingly against unyielding ring posts, ear biting, eye gouging, hair pulling, and plain, old-fashioned strangling...
...Soviet students have graduated from the nation's ten-year (college prep) schools. And when Premier Khrushchev's learning-and-labor edict (TIME, Jan. 5) takes effect, the proportion probably will drop. In the U.S. 55% of the children who begin first grade go on to finish high school. American students most often are promoted automatically-although some schools, notably those in New York City, have begun flunking dullards again. In Russia a frightening series of 26 examinations sift students at intervals, shunt unsuccessful scholars off to work or to one of thousands of "technikums"-vocational schools...