Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classical drama in the original languages. California's Thacher shuns football but requires every boy to own and operate his own horse for two years. Top event there is a gymkhana featuring orange-spearing at full gallop. Equally important now: a summer program in math and astronautics. One smart crew of Thacher satellite trackers recently exposed an error in Russian data...
Similarly, Dilworth is too smart to mention specific increases, says candidly: "That would be like cutting your own throat." His main pitch has been to point to his own really outstanding record in revitalizing Philadelphia. He also fends off any ties to the Lawrence administration. "This state has been inflicted for years with miserable state governments," says Dilworth. "It's been the history of this state to load up the payroll with political hacks who got miserable salaries and stole the rest...
...obvious result is a feeling among the smart set that mink has become ordinary. Says one fashion leader: "It's gotten to be nothing more than a seedy status symbol." Sniffs another: "Everybody in kingdom come has one. I never saw so many old sides and ears in my life. Of course, it is becoming to just everybody -even those little old poodles with the jeweled mink collars...
Plotting the story were two smart mathematicians, Harvard's Frederick Mosteller, and the University of Chicago's David L. Wallace, who have great faith that math can supply answers in what they call "uncertainty situations." To test their faith they took on a classic uncertainty situation: the historically open question of whether Alexander Hamilton or James Madison wrote twelve of the 77 Federalist Papers that appeared in New York newspapers in 1787-88 under the byline "Publius" (the authorship of the others is known). They got funds from the Ford, Rockefeller and National Science foundations, the Office...
...years, then a surge in demand for apartments, as the big generation of World War II babies grows up, marries and moves in. Buyers and renters need shed few tears for the builders, who continue to earn a pretax return of 30% to 40% on invested capital. "The smart builder is still making a good profit," says Washington, D.C., Housing Consultant Robinson Newcomb: "It's only getting a little harder to become a millionaire...