Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three minutes, speaking before the Supreme Soviet, Nikita Khrushchev decreed the removal of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev from the presidency of the Soviet Union and won the automatic assent of the 1,443 "worker and peasant" delegates. For Brezhnev, 57, the step down was really a step up. More clearly than ever, Brezhnev (TIME Cover, Feb. 21) is now Khrushchev's heir apparent. Being freed from the mere protocol tasks carried out by the President (formally known as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet), he can now apply himself more vigorously to the job that really counts: helping...
Transistorized Patience. To preserve the sanity of his teachers, and to carry his teaching system a big step forward, Moore presented the project to Thomas A. Edison Research Laboratory in West Orange, N.J. The firm finally developed a childproof teaching typewriter, complete with transistorized patience. This year the public schools of Freeport, Long Island, started testing the new machines by setting 22 kindergartners before computerized typewriters to learn to read, while another group of 22 children set about learning by conventional methods...
Touch-Typing Too. Next step was whole words. The machine pointed a red arrow to the first letter of the word "tree," for example, while the child located the letter "t" on the typewriter. When the letter was successfully hunted and pecked, the recorded voice murmured a confirming "t," and the arrow moved on. To make the whole thing more like a game, a colored photo of a tree stayed lighted until the child spelled the word. Words led to sentences, sentences to whole stories, and the learning-to-read process was complete...
...thirds majority. Federated's acquisition of Bullock's 23 stores (including 16 fashionable I. Magnin stores) will easily push the retailing giant's annual sales ($932 million in 1963) over the billion mark, give it needed strength on the West Coast. It is also another step toward a goal set earlier this year by Federated President Ralph Lazarus: to double sales within a decade...
There is something missing in this way of life. The walker in Washington is deprived of that sense of high adventure, that sense of living life with the strange intensity known only by the man whose next step may be his last. A spark has died, a certain vibrant note no longer sounds...