Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FINE ART OF FOOTBALL WATCHING (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Michigan State's Coach Duffy Daugherty explains his idea of how to watch football by concentrating on the two "deep backs" in an offensive backfield, on the theory that they are the tip-off to 90% of the action...
...credit is seen as an area of everyday fraud. Initially, America's burgeoning credit-card business suffered considerable damage from high livers who could buy now but not pay later. The magic inherent in those little plastic rectangles hypnotized many into becoming adventurers-such as the man whose idea of the good life was to bed down in a variety of hospitals on stolen Blue Cross cards. But such abuses are now insignificant-thanks to more responsible screening of applicants and automated accounting techniques-even though credit keeps expanding. In department-store charge accounts, the default rate is only...
...clustering will lead to "greater student rapport and a greater commitment to learning," because that is what happened to students in a trial run last year. Without advance word to anyone, university officials "block-registered" 30 freshmen in English, math, history and social-science classes, just to test the idea. Students quickly caught on, dubbed themselves "the group," got together for pizza parties and bowling. The teachers spontaneously coordinated assignments so that an English essay, for example, would deal with an idea being developed in a math class. They also compared notes on student weaknesses, gave problem kids more individual...
...metropolitan area's 650,000 Negroes. Watts (pop. 30,000) occupies a small part of a vast South Los Angeles Negro ghetto the size of Boston. Though its stucco homes and pastel-colored housing projects have a neat and ordered look that does not accord with the Eastern idea of slums, the Watts Negro feels even deeper frustration than Negroes elsewhere. Unemployment rates are high, fatherless homes are common, lawyers and doctors scarce. Served by a skeleton public transportation system and often unable to afford a car, the Watts Negro is among the most isolated...
...Daily News fancied his idea of installing a dating computer in Manhattan's Bryant Park, wryly quoted his statement: "The Parks Commission will take absolutely no responsibility for what happens next." The New York Times was all agog over his ideas for turning Flushing Meadows, the site of two world's fairs, into a future Olympic park. A three-decker golf driving range is already in the planning stage, Moving announced, and Japan's famed architect, Kenzo Tange, responsible for the main Tokyo Olympic buildings, has been asked to advise on a new Sports Palace...