Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bulk of children's programming is at best dismal. Since the big dollar is in prime-time programming, none of the networks even bothers to have a children's division; and most producers of children's TV think of it only as a chance to pick up some experience before moving up to the big time. With a few notable exceptions, such as Popular Scientist Don Herbert's Watch...
...Green Hornet. The shift is not only a reflection on the state of children's TV but on the industry as a whole. As Child Psychologist Hilde Himmelweit, author of Television and the Child, says: "It seems to me a devastating indictment that while ten-year-olds still pick up some knowledge from television, by the time they reach 13 only the dull ones do so, and that the more intelligent the child the less the TV hold becomes. Is it perhaps that much of the evening entertainment is at the level of a ten-to eleven-year...
...trend toward federal funding is irreversible. The Government supplied nearly one-fourth of the $16.8 billion that all colleges spent last year; by 1975, he predicted, this may climb to 50%. Eventually, he suggested, private donors will give up, or support only highly specialized projects, while federal taxes pick up the main burden and local and state revenues meet the expanding needs of the lower levels of education...
...northern coast of Florida, the creature peered inquisitively through the dark and murky waters, groping for the ocean bottom. Sweeping its searchlight back and forth like a baleful eye, it spotted a smooth black surface below. Touching down gently, it began to creep along on wheels, stopping occasionally to pick up chunks of black rock with its two 9-ft. arms. Finally, it slowly rose to the surface, its mission accomplished and its curiosity temporarily satisfied...
...submersible that can operate at a depth of 1,350 ft. for as long as twelve hours, moving up, down, forward, backward and sideways. It has a forward pilot's compartment and a separately pressured divers' compartment that enables it to discharge and pick up divers far below the water's surface. When pressure in the divers' compartment has been built up to equal the water pressure outside, a hatch drops open, enabling the divers to depart. When they come back, they can eat and rest in the still-pressurized compartment and then return to work...