Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smart Dropouts. Both schools have belatedly become bothered by high dropout rates. About one-third of Caltech's and one-fifth of M.I.T.'s frosh do not stay for four years, which implies that if such smart kids do not make it, something must be wrong with the teaching. To help freshmen adjust to the competition, Caltech now issues only "pass" or "fail" grades the first year. M.I.T., tired of the student refrain that "Tech is hell," has similarly loosened its freshman and sophomore course load, broken up its long-standard curriculum. "In the past, if a fellow...
Passing is just a small part of Zimmerman's contribution. His blocks have sprung Bobby Leo and Vic Gatto for long yardage. He is, in Stark's words, "a smart runner, and handles the option well...
...Smart Booth. Baldwin is ready to expand at once. "In St. Louis, the same kind of place might be located behind a shoeshine parlor, in Chicago, behind a Chinese laundry." His goal: a national chain of spy clubs with members identified through individual "passports." Meanwhile, he is hoping that Milwaukee's city fathers will relent and approve one of his favorite gimmicks. It is a telephone booth in the rear of the bar, patterned after the one used by TV Agent Maxwell Smart. When a patron dials the proper digits, the rear wall of the booth slips open onto...
...elections he lost, Mahoney polled an average of 144,000 votes--only 2000 less than he received this year. Mahoney has the kind of homey, honest charm that is endearing to blue-collar Baltimorians. He stirred up only one issue -- open-housing -- and he was smart to do it that way. Sickles spent his whole campaign damning the Tawes Admfinistration and Finan's role in it. A land scandal broke during the campaign involving key administration figures. Sickles played it up. He called Finan a boss-candidate and hurled inuendoes at the administration for its neglect of schools and pollution...
...brightest, slickest comedy of the opening week was The Hero (NBC), out of the same shop and mold as last season's hit, Get Smart. Richard Mulligan is cast as an actor who is cast as an actor in a TV western series. In real life he is a suburban dude and a sort of all-round schlemiel. Between (and sometimes during) takes, he is horse-shy, allergic to sagebrush, and as rugged as Mr. Peepers. But the sight gags are inventive, and the dialogue is literate. The only other situation comedy worth a twirl is That Girl...