Word: leaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THE ATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* "The Highest Fall of All" has Stuart Whitman as a Hollywood stuntman trying to stay alive through a leap from the Golden Gate Bridge while his wife, played by Joan Hackett, tries to kill herself in the bathtub. Repeat...
America's leap into space has stimulated science and spawned new industries. It has also created a new idiom: space-speak. Many a scientist finds the growing, and sometimes incomprehensible jargon essential to the simplest conversation about new devices and techniques. But many a layman has become convinced that it is only one more irritating and unnecessary obstacle looming between him and a better grasp of scientific accomplishment. In a detailed analysis of space-speak for the magazine Science, University of Michigan Psychologist David McNeill suggests that there is something to be said for both points of view...
...world had turned unheroic. Thomas Carlyle felt that "Ballot-boxes and Electoral suffrages" might prove a fatal threat to heroes. Americans today find heroism daily in Viet Nam and high courage in a thousand situations, from space to civil rights. And yet there is a widespread feeling that the leap of imagination that makes heroes and the generosity of spirit that acknowledges them are disappearing. Can there be real heroes in a time of the computer and the committee decision...
...Mountain States Ranch School, Inc., stretches over 12,000 acres of six ranches in southeastern Wyoming's rolling Centennial Valley, 20 miles west of Laramie. Snow-capped mountains fringe the sky to the west. Brown trout leap to the hook in the Little Laramie River, just outside classrooms in a rustic old building on the V-Bar Ranch. The 39 students live in a log bunkhouse that once served as a station on the stagecoach line. Supported by funds from Rancher Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty, the school pays each student $15 a week, charges no tuition...
...twice, looking in vain for TIME'S answer to the question. Author Bishop's mind must have been on another Day, for TIME'S positive view of God permeated the story. Perhaps he skipped too hurriedly over such lines as: "Faith is something of an irrational leap in the dark, a gift...