Word: senioritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alexander Onassis, heir apparent to his father's fortunes. Earlier, the soft Aegean wind had carried rumors that Alexander would commemorate his coming of age by defying his father and announce plans to marry New Zealand-born Fiona Thyssen, 36, his frequent companion and 16 years his senior. But Ari is a tough man to defy. When the birthday party moved on to a local bouzouki nightclub, Alexander asked his father, "May I take some whisky?" Aristotle reportedly replied: "Take anything you want-except Fiona...
...really won the 1968-69 season? Michael Dann, CBS senior vice president for programming, feels that he did. With CBS in second place midseason, Dann decided to shift Hawaii Five-0 from its 8 p.m. Thursday time slot (where it started opposite Flying Nun and the second half of Daniel Boone) to 10 p.m. Wednesday (against the less formidable competition of The Outsider and a movie). As a result, Hawaii Five-0 climbed from a 26% share of the audience to 37%. Without that shift, NBC might have finished in first place...
...Japanese workers to meet its demand for machine-tool operators. New York City social-service agencies have begun referring welfare recipients to taxi companies, whose shortage of 2,500 drivers has aggravated the chronic scarcity of cabs on city streets. Brokerage houses offer as much as $20,000 for senior clerks to help cope with Wall Street's paper pileup...
Starting pitcher for the Crimson will be right-hander Bob Kalinowski. The senior hurler started his first game of the season last Saturday against Princeton, and he held the Tigers to just six hits as he went the distance for the 3-1 victory...
...senior left fielder has nearly doubled his batting average in the last three weeks. Through eight games he hit a mere .188, but now he is second on the team with 19 hits and third in the standings with a .328 season average overall...