Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knows, things rarely turn out that way. Last week, confirmation of that fact came from the Federal Trade Commission, which concluded in a 205-page report: "Service retains the status of a 'necessary evil' in much of the automobile business." The report, which will lead to full-scale hearings on warranties in January, makes clear that as sales continue to rise service can only become more necessary-and more evil...
...physical making process so much more prominence than Mirko ever does. And there's Morris Louis, whose name and stripes of color are better known at Harvard than is Mirko. The action painter, the flat painter, the minimalist, the happening-creator, the sculptor of simple geometric forms at superhuman scale (Tony Smith, for one)--these are the fantastically novel stars...
...Famine. "I have to say that I have been nearer to despair this year, 1968, than ever in my life," observed Snow, who is 63. "We may be moving-perhaps in ten years-into large-scale famine. Many millions of people are going to starve. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets...
Until the last decade of the 52-year parntership ["of school and government"]--on no serious scale until the last two years--was there any sign of discontent on the side of the academic community. There weren't many academicians who thought that academic credit for the military skills taught on in ROTC had suddenly become different from the skills taught by other professionals--the doctors, lawyers, engineers and business men--and should not be allowable for credit...
...boxer of all time, Miami's Murry Woroner, 43, a full-time producer of radio specials and part-time sports buff, decided to take the question to the nearest modern oracle: a computer. He asked 250 boxing writers and other ring experts to rate famous pugilists on a scale of 58 variables, ranging from the standard (speed, cutability, punching power) to the subtle (killer instinct, ring generalship, courage). With the help of a few experts, he studied shadowy old films and yellowed newspaper clippings of fights to determine the number and kinds of punches each boxer threw. Then...