Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only a mile long and 4,000 ft. wide-normally base-camp elbow room for only an 800-man battalion. Passage in and out was safe only by helicopter or 100-vehicle heavy convoy. The Viet Cong had peppered the area with so many mines that almost any casual step could prove fatal; scores did in the first week...
...symbolizes the time when the knowledge explosion began forcing universities to abandon the ambition of teaching every student everything, and made them narrow down to what be came the "required courses" of modern schools. Now, all over the U.S., colleges and universities are scrutinizing the value of these lock-step requirements and, to a surprising degree, are dumping them in favor of letting students form their own education patterns...
Niebuhr, 73, and in poor health, has taken a less active role in the magazine in recent years, eventually will step down. Since 1953 he has shared the title of editor with President John C. Bennett of Union Theological Seminary, while day-to-day operations are handled by Managing Editor Wayne Cowan, 38, a former Methodist missionary in Japan...
...curriculums inside out. Instead of teaching a few subjects intensively in unwieldy, time-consuming blocks (anatomy all through the first year, pathology in the second), Western Reserve University began as long ago as 1952 to slice the four standard years into three functional phases. It also took the revolutionary step of assigning each freshman student to a pregnant patient, to serve as assistant to all the doctors who care for her and her family for the next two years...
Preoccupied Voices. The Johnson Administration was acutely aware of the potential for-and the peril of-inflation. Among other things, the Treasury Department raised the interest on U.S. Savings Bonds from 3.75% to 4.15%. Only last month, when such a step was under discussion, the argument in favor was that it would make Government bonds more competitive with others, thereby bringing in added revenues; there seemed to be little thought of using it as an anti-inflationary measure. When the interest increase was announced last week, all the emphasis was on anti-inflation: raising the rate, it was argued, would...