Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More important, Bethel demonstrated the unique sense of community that seems to exist among the young, their mystical feeling for themselves as a special group, an "us" in contrast to a "them." The festival was widely advertised, but the unexpectedly large crowd it attracted suggests that the potential significance of the event was spread by a kind of underground network. "If you were part of this culture," said one pilgrim back from Bethel, "you had to be there." In spite of the grownup suspicions and fears about the event. Bethel produced a feeling of friendship, camaraderie and ?an overused...
...embittered that he set out to improve Illinois justice by investigating judges and reforming the system under which they are elected in the state. The son of an immigrant garment cutter from Russia, Skolnick dropped out of Roosevelt University, where he was an A student but required special transportation to the campus, which he could no longer afford. Later, he taught himself law at home and carved a full-time career as a sort of modern day Robin Hood for the law's many losers...
...Armour Institute (since renamed the Illinois Institute of Technology) led Mies to Chicago and the full flowering of his genius. "He always said he would have created the same things if he had stayed in Germany," says Mies' grandson, Architect Dirk Lohan, "but personally I believe that the special climate and pace of Chicago helped him to create what...
Stations that sign up with the Smothers network get the last-year show free -in return for a commitment to carry in December a 90-minute Smothers special to be taped largely in Toronto. After that, Tommy figures that Smothers Inc. will have whetted enough viewer appetite to syndicate a regular series of monthly specials-or even win second-season time on one of the established networks on their own terms...
...consumer price index for July rose at an annual rate of 6% . That was down from a 7.2% rate in June, but little comfort can be taken from the fact. The 3.6% rise in prices between January and July was the greatest for the period since 1951. But a special Federal Reserve Board study shows that businessmen plan little increase in spending for new factories and equipment during the rest of this year. Such outlays have been a major source of inflationary pressure, and for all of 1969 the Reserve Board expects capital spending to rise fully...