Word: senioritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LOOK UP AND LIVE (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). How old folks face the problems of retirement is the subject of Part 1 of a two-part series on the nation's senior citizens. A group of the elderly join other experts, including Dr. Wilma Donahue of the University of Michigan's Institute for Human Adjustment and William Mitchell, retired director of the Social Security Administration, in discussing "Aging in America...
After 15 weeks of frantic planning, Sandorff's 21 senior and graduate engineering students worked out a complex scheme that they-and their instructor -believe would save the world from collision with an onrushing asteroid...
...with assets of $15 billion, ranks only behind the Bank of America ($18 billion) and Chase Manhattan ($15.8 billion). Moore himself had been no help in the guessing game, having once said that any one of the bank's six executive vice presidents and most of the 36 senior V.P.s could handle the job. Headlined the Wall Street Journal as speculation grew: PRESIDENCY CONTEST IS NEARING SHOWDOWN...
...also possible, however, to argue that Mrs. Bunting's attention is necessary because she is surrounded by incompetents. Students and senior residents who have had to deal extensively with the Radcliffe hierarchy sometimes claim, for instance, that one has to get Mrs. Bunting's permission before Buildings and Grounds will turn up the heat during the winter. No one below her sets policies: the three Deans administer Harvard's academic policies according to the "Rules Relating to College Studies." Mrs. Bunting, it is said, makes all the other decisions for her flaccid bureaucracy. (She is surrounded. one alumna says...
...senior who plans to enter the Navy after graduation admitted a few days ago that he was frankly "hung up" over his desire to organize middle-class adults against the war for fear that his chances of getting into the Navy might be jeopardized. And his quandry is, in some respects, typical of the more moderate opponents of the war here...