Word: rationalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weighed out, to the thousandth of a gram, and dissolved. With the same micrometric accuracy, 16 vitamins are added, plus glucose, eleven salts, and ethyl linoleate-a fatty-acid substance. Finally, flavor is added. So far, only fruit flavors have proved practical. An attempt to give the volunteers a ration with a smoked-ham flavor failed because of interaction with the amino acids...
...enough for one step, but Erhard had a further move in mind. On a quiet Sunday afternoon when, as he says, "I knew no bureaucrats would be around to stop me," he went to the local radio station and took the air with a dramatic announcement: the end of rationing. "From now on," he declared, "the only ration stamp will be the Deutsche mark...
...conservative coaches are caught up in the enthusiasm. At Columbus, Ohio, where 84,000 watched unbeaten Ohio State and unbeaten Illinois battle to a 20-20 tie, Coach Woody Hayes, the grind-'em-out granddaddy of them all, let Buckeye Quarterback Don Unverfeth throw a season's ration of passes (12). "I'm not throwing the ball just to make people happier," insisted Hayes. "I'm trying to win games. That makes them happier, usually...
...some areas, scarce in others. So it is with items such as cloth. Last year, when the cloth ration in Canton was only 1½ feet per person annually, it was 7 feet in Tsinan. To buy commodities, workers needed coupons as well as money: one coupon, plus the necessary cash price, got a small cooking pot. Each citizen also received a ticket for two bars of toilet soap a year, and one of laundry soap per month, and there were ration cards for cooking oil, flour, sugar and sweets. The meat ration in Tsinan is currently three ounces...
...Girls, Run. But in gaining preeminence, the graduate schools overwhelmed the liberal arts college. To balance the university, Harnwell provides a bigger ration of liberal arts for all undergraduates, notably those at Wharton. The liberal arts college has finally acquired an honors program and its own faculty, calling on such top scholars as Anthropologist Loren Eiseley. Also strong: American civilization, Oriental studies, history. By 1970, Penn hopes to start a house plan like those at Yale and Harvard...