Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the years, regularly scheduled programs have been getting longer. This season there will be 31 half-hour shows, 36 full-hour programs, three 90-minute extravaganzas and seven two-hour blockbusters. Even 30-minute comedies are being bunched in groups of three, for easy pre-emption by 90-minute specials. The long programs are so schedule-disrupting that they cannot help causing a fundamental change in the old 26-week parade of series episodes, since fewer programs will ride out a season uninterrupted...
...that doesn't mean they can do it better that way. We can't do it for them. At best we can ask the right questions." This kind of informed insight was invaluable to the teachers. Said a white professor from Laney College in Oakland: "In seven years of collegiate and university training, this is the first time I ever had any instructor lay it on the line...
...Seven-Ton Solution. Atlanta's plan was painstakingly evolved over a three-year period by teachers, principals and administrators. When the principals' committee met for six weeks last summer to develop the complex new schedules and curriculum guide, it used up more than seven tons of paper. So many factors were involved in scheduling new classes and redistributing teaching and classroom assignments that the Atlanta School System had to develop its own computer program. Says John Martin, a former assistant superintendent who directed the curriculum changeover: "The computer is as essential to our system...
...statistic. Dr. Scheffer begins the year in "a quiet month in autumn in the northeastern Pacific," with his calf whale backing into the world tail first-14 feet long, weighing a ton, ready to swim. Nursing for two years on mother's milk, the little leviathan will gain seven pounds a day. Sexual maturity will arrive at the age of nine, but he will not reach full growth until he is 30 to 45. Then he may be as much as 60 feet long and 60 tons in weight. He will be able to cruise at six knots...
...round performer at that position. Champi has the best throwing arm of any quarterback in Harvard history, but despite his Yale game performance, he has not yet proven his ability to provide stable technical leadership. Roda is an unknown quantity, although in two freshman games at Villanova he threw seven touchdown passes. Smith has most of the ingredients but has not yet used them together, and Crace faces a problem in a system that seldom starts sophomores at quarterback...