Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Colleges are also getting leary of grades-are-everything competition. The first major school to act is California Institute of Technology, which last week eliminated "freshman grades. Caltech's ferociously smart freshmen will still take exams and do graded homework assignments, but at the end of the freshman year students will simply pass or fail. With grades "unattainable," Faculty Chairman Ernest H. Swift hopes that freshmen "will find it easier to concentrate on the content of their course. This, in turn, may enable them to make more sensible choices as to the investment of their time and energy...
...bought until New Year's Day. A fine drop-back passer, in the mold of Baltimore's Johnny Unitas, Namath is a special case: he is a No. 1 draft choice in both the A.F.L. (New York Jets) and the N.F.L. (St. Louis Cardinals). With a smart lawyer and a little patience, he could well wind up the highest-paid pro in history-before he even suits up for his first pro game...
...Seattle base designed a monster, bag-shaped trawl. The mouth, 117 ft. square, is kept open by floats and kitelike "otter boards"; it can be submerged at any depth. The great net is pulled through the water at less than 3 m.p.h. A few fish, including salmon, are smart enough to recognize danger and dart to safety, but most types do not take alarm until too late...
...Pont's unwillingness to share its hard-won secrets with a dozen competitors that are trying to crack the synthetic-leather market. Not even the shoemakers have been allowed inside the production area, and a sign at Old Hickory announces: "Our competitor is a nice fellow-smart too-so let him figure his own way." One reason for Du Pont's anxiety: computers that it rented from the Pentagon to calculate potential markets and profits fed back the prediction that world demand for shoes will exceed the supply of hides by as much...
...Lincoln had to fire five generals. In fact he had to fire McClellan twice. McClellan was about as egotistical as MacArthur-and that's giving him his due, because I don't think he was quite as smart as MacArthur . . . After the surrender treaty, I named MacArthur the head of the occupation of Japan...