Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many centuries, royal patronage was an index to British culture. Eliza beth I learned that "the Italians had the name to be the cunningest," but what Italian paintings the crown acquired were largely sold off by Cromwell though the Restoration Stuarts searched to recover them...
...unleashed a passion for aggiornamento in the most tradition-encrusted of churches. Catholicism's vitality shows in the new liturgy, and in the zest with which a generation of "open church" priests and laymen are calling for more reforms of outdated rules (clerical celibacy, for example), institutions (the Index of Forbidden Books) and teachings (birth control). The renewal at the Vatican has also had a striking impact on the sister churches: it challenges the Reformation faiths to re-examine how reforming they still are. "The ecumenical breakthrough in Catholicism has changed the climate of the times," says Dean Samuel...
...World War II bomber pilot. Ryan flew 58 combat missions in Europe, on the final one lost his left index finger to flak; in SAC circles he is fondly, but not to his face, known as "Three-Finger Jack." In 1946 he helped plan U.S. atomic tests at Bikini atoll, then joined SAC, which was just being formed. With the exception of a year's tour as Air Force inspector general, he has been a SAC man ever since, most recently serving as Power's deputy commander. He knows all the tools of his trade, is an expert...
...guide's editors-James Cass, associate educational editor of the Saturday Review, and Max Birnbaum, director of education and training for the American Jewish Committee-base their "selectivly index" on the scholastic potential of the student body. The index, they claim, "is a crucial measure of the academic quality of a college because...an institution of higher learning can never be much better than its student body-and is not likely to be much worse...
...should the students want to know? Well, PRL is the closest thing Harvard has to a how-smart-are-you index, and because of that it is one of the College's greatest status symbols. Does ranking first in your class at Exeter make you smarter than a science type who gets a bunch of 800 board scores? It's hard to say. PRL is Harvard's answer to such questions; it is a tidy composite of your high school academic achievements and what the College knows of your aptitude...