Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rarely seen at the "in" Restaurant-of-the-Month, never swings at the Racquet Club in Palm Springs. She doesn't play the tables at Vegas or pick up a cue in the billiard room of the Beverly Hills Daisy; where Frank Sinatra bides his time, she abides not. If she isn't at home, she is likely to be found with her four-year-old daughter at Hamburger Hamlet or at the Los Angeles Zoo or at a local art gallery. Her night on the town is the Bolshoi or a concert at the Hollywood Bowl...
...First National Bank of Logan and in 1963 one in Ogden for First Security Bank of Utah, partly on the ground that Utah's restriction on branching "method" did not apply to national banks. That approval, ruled Justice Clark, amounted to "a strange argument that permits one to pick and choose what portion of the law binds...
Corps of Integrity. The military academy expects its students to pick up most of their specialized military and technical knowledge in summer training and after they leave the Point-and 60% of them eventually do go on to civilian graduate schools at Army expense. Today, technical instruction at the Point emphasizes such versatile new tools as the computer. Every cadet must take at least 40 hours of basic instruction in the use of the Point's three GE 225 computers...
Last year Coach Ned Harkness's practically all-Canadian squad was second in the East to Clarkson, the only team besides Harvard to top the Ithacans. Everyone's preseason pick to dominate the East this year, Cornell has so far demolished St. Lawrence, 8-0, and Northeastern...
Slow Route. Bestsellers are about as rare as the publisher's ability to pick them. Most trade books still get printed in runs of 5,000 copies or under, sell a few thousand copies over a period of three months, and then quietly die. The surplus is remaindered-sent back to the publisher, who is lucky to get 300 a copy from the remainder bookstores, which deal in such wrong guesses. Multiplied many times over, this is the true picture of the adult book business which, except for the appearance of the paperback, has not changed its ways appreciably...