Word: mix
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pepsi's Russian aficionados are experimenting with new ways to enjoy it -not all of which would fall in the health category. The latest rage-so new that it does not yet have a name-is a fifty-fifty mix of vodka and Pepsi in a tall glass. Hammer and Pepsickle...
Bryn Mawr, however, saw Haverford's decision as a direct threat to its single-sex future. Officials and students felt that if Haverford went coed, the mix of students in the exchange program would change from a roughly fifty-fifty male-female ratio to two-thirds or more women. Thus, in a time of increasing competition for bright female students, Bryn Mawr's special situation would no longer look so attractive...
Other less traumatic mix-ups are bound to arise as Americans trade in their historic furlongs, acres, bushels and pecks for the more rational, if less poetic meters, hectares and liters. Some conversions, though, will be learned more quickly than others: getting a traffic ticket for driving 50 miles per hour in a 50 kilometer-per-hour zone will probably help drivers adjust to the new system. And a few changes will be happy ones. Leon Jaroff, editor of the Science and Medicine sections, reminds us that "if your weight is 166 lbs., the scale will read only 76 kilograms...
...Boulder, Colo., offers two: Roastaroma Mocha Spice, made of roasted barley, malt, chicory, dandelion root, carob and spices; and Morning Thunder, a concoction of black tea and a South American herb called yerba mate. An Orlando, Fla., businessman, George Sarantakos, is getting ready to market Bravo, an herbal mix that can be drunk alone or used to stretch out real coffee. It tastes like supermarket instant and, says Sarantakos, is made partly from "weeds we can pick up anywhere...
...current system at the Quad. The report termed four class Houses "the ideal but least feasible alternative" (1.4-8a), and keeping our freshmen scarcely requires "construction and rearrangement of the campus." Why is it that uniformity outweighs all other factors? Would the Yard freshmen complain about missing "the mix of classes (which) would be very positive" (1.4-8s)? Perhaps the fear is that upperclassmen complain about having freshmen underfoot. But sophomores wanting to move do this because it is a 'legitimate' reason in Harvard's eyes, whereas irrational prejudice and a dislike of walking...