Word: switch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Flip the Switch. In this indoor Shangri-La, parents are building themselves a home within a home, including stereo and TV sets, dressing room, extra closet space, fireplace, bar, refrigerator, and perhaps even a small kitchen. One couple does much of its entertaining in the master bedroom, which is decorated like a living room (the beds are made up like studio couches), has a separate entrance. Parental authority is maintained through a master control panel that can turn out lights all over the house and through an intercom system over which parents can give orders-and avoid being answered back...
...response to questions about the diploma incident, Coolidge supported the change from Latin to English because "La'in is no longer the international language of scholars." He did, however, strongly favor the Overseers' decision to switch to a larger and more impressive format next year and labelled the newstyle diplomas "miserable little pieces of paper--like a bond you get in a furniture store." The Corporation approved the new-style diplomas last fall...
TIME'S cover story this week is another fast switch and another example of Cover Artist Boris Chaliapin's quick brushwork. Shepard's weightless passage through the wild blue yonder, is, of course, strictly symbolic...
...most Americans, writes Sociologist Alfred Lindesmith in Drug Addiction, the suggestion that the U.S. should switch to something like the British system comes as "a startling, radical or dangerous idea." Narcotics Commissioner Harry Anslinger opposes it. But the A.B.A.-A.M.A. joint committee-while flatly against anything like "indiscriminate distribution" of narcotics-recommends trying something like the British system on a pilot-plant basis. This would be an "outpatient facility, on a controlled, experimental basis." For a site, the committee suggests the District of Columbia, "being an exclusively federal jurisdiction and immediately accessible to both law-enforcement and public health agencies...
...Board, like Pusey, reported a heavy mail volume protesting the switch--so heavy, in fact, that the Board "could not ignore the issue" at its meeting...