Word: patternings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...challenge in the two decades ahead, the report went on, is to "double the houses, power systems, sanitation, schools, transport, in fact the whole complex pattern of urban living created over several centuries." Can this goal be accomplished? The record in both rich and poor nations is discouraging, though there are a few bright examples. Through high-level planning, Russia, Britain, Venezuela and India have encouraged the rise of small cities to decentralize population. France and Bulgaria fostered new, strategically located regional centers. Switzerland and The Netherlands have attempted with some success to balance growth between cities and rural towns...
Literature and folklore abound with tales of people who cling to life as long as they have "reason for living," and mysteriously die within weeks after they feel that their purpose is accomplished. Now a young sociologist at Johns Hopkins University has suggested that this fictional behavior pattern is well founded in fact. More often than not, accourding to a study by David Phillips, people who are about to die seem to hang on until after a birthday, an election, a religious holiday or another event that they keenly anticipate...
General Motors is making minimal design changes. Frequently they involve nothing more fundamental than radiator grilles or other ornaments. The big Ford and Mercury models follow the same pattern. What few changes there are cater to the public's new taste for long hoods and truncated rear decks. For example, Chevrolet's lone new car, the Monte Carlo two-door sedan, measures 6 ft. from grille to windshield...
...visible in the two latest products of the Shaw scholastic industry. Dr. Stanley Weintraub, a leading Shavian expert in the U.S., has culled biographical bits from the detritus of Shaw's mountainous writings to make a paste-and-scissors "autobiography." British Historian R. J. Minney has formed a pattern of sorts from some industriously gathered anecdotal bits. Though the Shavian shavings do not quite add up to the beard of the prophet, Weintraub's book at least proves that Shaw was perhaps the greatest autobiographer who never wrote...
...calls a friend from a pay phone to ask about the family; his approximate distance from home can be determined when the operator says, for instance, "Deposit $1.65 please." Those geographical leads are often enough for Tracers, says Vice President Edward Goldfader, because the runaways seldom alter the familiar pattern of their lives when they take up residence in a new city. They do not change their names, often because they fear their inability to respond naturally if someone calls out to them; they usually end up with jobs similar to the ones they left. Often they can be found...