Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surge of interest in subdividing student bodies stems largely from a less intensive, but more extensive, 5-year-old application of the idea at Michigan State University. When school opens, 14,000 students will be assigned to coeducational "living-learning units," in which they sleep, eat and take some of their required freshman and sophomore courses under single roofs. Last year 300 freshmen moved into M.S.U.'s new Justin S. Morrill College, which accents languages and foreign studies. One-third of the students visited Russia, Switzerland and Spain together this summer...
...every university administrator endorses the cluster idea. Purdue Vice President Paul Chenea contends that no matter what the size of a school, a student tends to become familiar with only half a dozen teachers and a score of students. Others argue that the diversity of relationships at a big university is one of its glories, not handicaps. "Most students will not go out into the world and settle in small towns," says U.C.L.A. Dean Franklin P. Rolfe. "They will head for the megalopolis. The big university represents civilization...
...years ago, Drs. James Weinstein and Barry Davidson, young doctors at Tufts-New England Medical Center, started experimenting with water beds made from sheets of plastic stretched over tubs. The basic idea came from 19th century doctors who tried water mattresses constructed on the same principle. But like its predecessors, the Weinstein-Davidson product weighed in at an impractical, beam-breaking 3,000 Ibs. The doctors did not give up, though, and lightweight improvements on their design, manufactured by the Scott Paper Co., now fit standard hospital beds. The hollowed-out, foam-rubber mattresses have inserted plastic sacs that...
...This is not a civil rights series," insists WAOK's white, Ohio-born programming manager, Zenas Sears. "The idea is to bring up problems of youth versus maturity or versus the Establishment. The immediate, practical effect is to make the listener think...
...heart! With horror the voyagers realize that the only way back to the brain lies through the gnashing organ whose terrible turbulence would smash their delicate ship to smithereens. Then all at once top brass (Edmond O'Brien and Arthur O'Connell) has a dazzling idea: if the patient's heart were stopped for 60 seconds, the submarine might squeak through the right ventricle without getting tangled in the chordae tendineae that hang there in hundreds like looping lianas...