Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS. Rober Preston is gleeful and guileful as a phon) TV writer-producer trying to keep his career from dissolving into a test pattern...
...ostensible cause of all this was eight sonic booms every 24 hours, day after day, week after week-a pattern of thunderclaps for the area's 750,000 inhabitants who have become guinea pigs in a six-month Federal Aviation Agency test. The test is to determine the effect upon groundlings of flights by supersonic transport aircraft, which the U.S. is about ready to develop, when they start crisscrossing the country in the early 1970s...
Voice of the Mammies. What institutions are emerging from the new Africa? Whether Western political scientists like it or not, the one-party state seems likely to be the pattern in most of Africa for the foreseeable future...
Rush Hour Every Hour. In a recent poll of 317 colleges, Duke University found that only 5% of them ban all student cars. Apart from freshmen, who are usually forbidden to drive on campus, roughly one out of three U.S. collegians has a car. But the pattern varies widely. Miami is plagued with two-car students, while Purdue forbids freshmen and sophomores even to drive in the county around the campus. At well-heeled Northwestern, coeds tool to class in Cadillacs ("We've always had a high caliber of automobile here"). At Harvard, vehement Vespas grind like drunken dentists...
Saltonstall said that the major problem of the Peace Corps teachers in Nigeria is that the schools are set up on the British pattern. The students, he explained, are accustomed to learning things by rote. "I stand strongly for the American tradition of trying to understand things, rather than memorizing them word by word...