Word: select
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spur toward private schooling is getting into college. The country's 1,708 independent secondary schools, with an enrollment of about 250,000, send 95% of their graduates to college, against 40% from public schools. This faith in private schools is chiefly rooted in their freedom. They can select better students. They can pay teachers by merit, make innovations, borrow ideas from anywhere. On every score they can outpace all but a few crack public schools...
...Rolls boasts twin horizontal headlights, a lower hood, wider grille and hotter engine (around 270 h.p.). For the select minority who can afford Rolls prices (from $15,655 in the U.S. for the Silver Cloud II to $27,617 for the Park Ward), this was big news. But for Rolls-Royce Ltd. itself, autos are now little more than a sideline. Since World War II, the company has diversified into everything from rocket engines to nuclear propulsion systems for submarines. By so doing, it has become one of Britain's notable growth companies; since 1950 its sales have soared...
...evening ended with a brilliant ball at the red brick British embassy, where the most select 600 mingled in marble halls, danced past the gold pillars of the grand ballroom, relaxed at candlelit tables on flagstone terraces. One terrace was covered by a white silk tent trimmed in gold, ashimmer with garlands of tiny lights-all designed for the 1957 visit of Queen Elizabeth...
...programs that scheduled a calendar of activities, organized "commando'' groups of workers assigned to fund raising, advertising and "reregistering" Democrats. The Republicans contracted early for most of the state's best billboard space, leaving the Democrats pretty much behind the bushes. All that remained was to select their Republican candidates-and Organizer Bellmon was the obvious choice for Governor...
Some time this year, NATO is supposed to select a VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) plane, and even though Britain's P.1154 has a clear jump on the field, officials already are worried. "The U.S. could ask everybody to hold off and wait for theirs," said one Briton, and that might mean grave trouble for big planemakers like British Aircraft Corp. and Hawker Siddeley...