Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only How to Hide. "This is a guessing game," says Marichal. "The hitter is always trying to guess, and I'm always trying to guess what the hitter is guessing. I haven't gotten any better-only smarter." Strange as that may sound, it is the truth...
...years of running a string of 21 southeastern bowling alleys, Kazmaier joined sports-minded A.M.F. in 1962. He figures that football is fine training for corporate life because in both fields "You fight a lot of hard battles and you don't win unless you're smarter and tougher than the opposition." Businessman Kazmaier is "only a social athlete now-golf and tennis and that...
There is a certain shrewdness in his attitude that "you can get anybody to tell you almost anything if you make him think he's smarter than you are." As someone who has worked closely with him put it, "a key thing about his personality is that he's always remained a Midwesterner with a Midwesterner's distrust of Easterners...
...block letters: TAKE THIS MAN! Harvard also took the applicant who pleaded in the margin: "Help me!" "We found this irresistible," recalls Cavell. "He dropped out after one term." But generally, "You can't con an admissions committee," says Cavell. "You can't be cooler, or smarter. What you've got to be is different...
...plane right down to the deck; theoretically, it would fail only once in 1.25 billion landings, but even that is too much for U.S. airmen. Ultimately, computers will control all flight patterns, analyze the weather, and do much of the work in takeoffs and landings. The computers are not smarter than man; they simply solve the complex problems of flight more rapidly and reliably. As Los Angeles Psychologist Chaytor Mason, a former Marine aviator, explains, complex planes call for complex decisions that the best human pilot may not be able to make in time...