Word: selections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McFarland, director of personnel services at GM, explained that under the latter plan, winners of national scholarships tended to concentrate in a small number of select colleges, like Harvard in an effort to include more colleges in the program, GM imposed in 1960 a quota on the number of national winners that any one institution could have...
...that the real God was hidden to men's eyes; earth, the realm of evil, had been created by a lesser, malevolent deity. Jesus had been sent by the hidden God to redeem the world from this demiurge, and had imparted a secret wisdom, or gnosis, to the select few who were destined to be saved...
Just what type of targets an enemy will select is a highly speculative subject. Presently it is estimated that the Soviet Union has 75 or more missiles, a force insufficient for a "pre-emptive" first strike. This means that the U.S.S.R. lacks the power to destroy U. S. retaliatory forces, even if the Soviets concentrate solely on these targets. Therefore the only way in which the Russians can hope to threaten America is to aim their missiles at the population centers of the U. S. and Western Europe. The 25 major metropolitan areas in the United States contain 60.8 million...
...Willie Mays: a $100,000 contract with the San Francisco Giants, putting him in the select company of such baseball tycoons as Joe DiMaggio, Stan Musial, and Ted Williams. In the 1962 season, Mays, 31, led both leagues in home runs with 49, batted in 141 runs. He hit .304 for the year, and it was his home run clout in the last regular-season game against the Houston Colts that sent the Giants into a playoff with the Los Angeles Dodgers and then into the World Series. Al ready the highest-paid active player in baseball (the aging Musial...
Bender was concerned about the consequences, for the College and the individual, of an admissions policy which would select students solely on the basis of apparant academic promise...