Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...correct word usage for American Heritage's forthcoming dictionary, which will be published jointly with Houghton Mifflin Co. next month. Polled by mail on lists of questionable words, the panelists reached a rough consensus that will be tabulated in the dictionary text. Whatever the final result, the polling process was a Gallup through contemporary English and its linguistic hurdles...
...recent doubleheader at Minnesota's Metropolitan Stadium, the Twins subjected the faltering Detroit Tigers, the defending world champions, to a humiliating demonstration of speed and muscle. Tiger Ace Mickey Lolich, whose won-lost record was 14-2 before the game, lost the opener, 5-2. In the process, he gave up his first home run of the year, a line shot by Minnesota Second Baseman Rod Carew. In the second game, the Twins chased the Tigers' other star, Denny McLain (15-5), off the mound in the fifth inning; two home runs, including Third Baseman Harmon Killebrew...
...nine, it can provide nine months of education per year for one-third again as many students. But pilot studies have demonstrated no appreciable economies and have shown that there is opposition to compulsory attendance during the summer quarter. Atlanta, by encouraging voluntary summer participation to broaden the learning process rather than merely to increase efficiency, may have found a way to do both...
...Hollywood practice of isolating a single incident from one of the novels and blowing it up into a complete story for the screen. But fearlessly, the studio resolved to distill the essence of the entire Quartet -carefully constructed around Freud's idea that "every sexual act is a process in which four persons are involved" -into one big, sloppy movie. Assigned the thankless task of giving order and meaning to Durrell's universe, Screenwriter Lawrence B. Marcus eliminated Clea and shaped the other characters into soap-opera carvings. The result, given the overall title of Justine...
...spokesman for Harvard--Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for Governmental Relations--would only say that "In the early discussions [of the stadium concerts], someone in the Riverside group suggested and brought into the discussions a man named George Papadoupolos. In the process of negotiation the discussions turned toward Boston 'Summerthing' as producer for all five stadium concerts...