Word: select
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fall. Thus, on the chilly morning of Nixon's victory, dejected campaign workers were cheered by Humphrey's promise to work for a party that was "vital and responsive" to the political imperatives of the 1970s. Last week, the Democratic National Committee gathered in Washington to select a new national chairman to guide the party along the hard road back. The choice-by only a single dissenting vote-to succeed the outgoing Lawrence O'Brien: Oklahoma's Senator Fred Harris, 38. Harris not only had the blessing of Hubert Humphrey; he had also taken the precaution...
...American idiom. In one sense, it is redundant: since all Anglo-Saxons are white, the word could be Asp. Purists like to confine Wasps to descendants of the British Isles; less exacting analysts are willing to throw in Scandinavians, Netherlanders and Germans. At the narrowest, Wasps form a select band of well-heeled, well-descended members of the Eastern Establishment; at the widest, they include Okies and Snopeses, "Holy Rollers" and hillbillies. Wasps range from Mc-George Bundy and Penelope Tree to William Sloane Coffin Jr. and Phyllis Diller. Generously defined, Wasps constitute about 55% of the U.S. population...
...SELECT was developed by two undergraduates at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bernard Klein and Ray Kurzweil. Klein had gained business experience in summer jobs at Sonar Radio Corp. Kurzweil had been working with computers since his junior high school days (at 14, he built and programmed a computer that wrote music). Both men agreed fervently that the process of college selection is a harsh trial of patience and endurance for most students. Together they raised $1,300 to lease computer time and to pay 20 Harvard students for assembling and collating information on the nation's 3,000 institutions...
Seeing into the Future. The publishing firm of Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., which bought SELECT last fall for an undisclosed sum plus royalties, now has a full-time five-man staff at work in New York keeping the 2,000,000 items of data on the colleges up to date. SELECT is already producing a potentially valuable byproduct for the colleges. The abundance of information that is available from student answers to those 283 searching questions should help college administrators estimate future needs for faculty and facilities. It will also help in the design of courses that will be responsive...
...sense, Friedman is like a Paris designer whose haute couture is bought by a select few, but who nonetheless influences almost all popular fashions. Richard Nixon's economists will not accept all of Milton Friedman's money-supply theory. They will, however, pay much more attention to monetary policy -and relatively less to taxes and Government spending. In that way, they hope to ease the economy onto a steadier, less inflationary course...