Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration has won Senate permission to add several thousand more badly needed air-traffic controllers at the nation's airports. More offices, such as the Veterans Administration and the Social Security Administration, will also make the case that they cannot handle their expanding workload with a 1966-force level...
Some seem to fly through the air like a jet taking off. Some dangle from the ceiling and seem to float, like a yellow submarine, at ankle, knee-or eye-level. Yet none of these ever actually move, for they are not boats, not planes, but sleekly minimal bolts and beams cantilevered into a startling semblance of motion by Manhattan's Robert Grosvenor, 31. "I like sculpture to be a kind of quick thing, like what we see out of train windows," says Grosvenor. "I like things I've seen very fast and I don't know...
...seven kids to educate, and the first one starts college in a couple of years. Where else could I make this kind of money?" Where indeed? In his pro career, Boros has won more than $650,000, and his income lately has stabilized at a pleasantly plump, middle-aged level. Last year, in 25 tournaments, he earned $126,785. This year, after 18 tournaments, he has $82,701 in the bank, and professes to be a trifle disappointed that he hasn't won more. "I'm playing better all the time," he explains-adding, a bit incredulously...
This fall, an estimated 300 graduates of the Academies of Transition will go on to a third and final level, at either New Jersey's privately endowed Newark Prep or the Urban League's Harlem Prep. Founded last October and already accredited, Harlem Prep has its own school song, navy blue blazers and an unmistakable esprit, de corps. Both schools have thus far sent 96 former dropouts to college...
...begun allowing salesmen to wear sport coats instead of suits. Xerox insists on tonsorial tidiness, but it has permitted one of its California service technicians to affect a handlebar mustache because "it looks quite sophisticated on him." At Jersey Standard, well-cultivated sideburns are sprouting at the middle-management level. IBM, long a bastion of conservatism, has relaxed its unwritten requirement that men wear white shirts only, even though it is far from ready for the Nehru jacket...