Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Into the System. The obvious solution is a vast upgrading of the city's public schools, but New York is too broke for that. As an alternative, New York's 15-unit City University (C.C.N.Y.'s parent) has an ambitious plan to enlarge community colleges and guarantee a crack at higher education for all comers by 1975. To that end, C.C.N.Y. has already admitted 732 less qualified students, who get special tutoring and then enter the regular undergraduate program if and when they qualify. Unfortunately, lack of money threatens both the long-range plan and the tutoring...
...eight years. A key goal: promoting hope and incentive in slum high schools. Arthur Bierman, a physics professor and faculty negotiator, who initially opposed the whole idea, was eventually sold by the student negotiators' sincerity. "Unlike the white radicals," he said, "they are trying to get into the system, not destroy...
...Administrator Paine said last week. "We are providing the most exciting possible answer to the age-old question of whether life as we know it on earth can exist on the moon and planets. The answer is yes. Man can extend the domain of terrestrial life throughout the solar system." If Paine's flat assertion sounded somewhat premature, or unduly optimistic, there was good cause. Apollo 10 was the sort of flight that can inspire even cautious men to let their words take wing...
...style circuit rider, familiar to any fan of Hollywood westerns, largely disappeared in the U.S. around the turn of the century as urbanization advanced. Morrow is one of his few surviving descendants in North America. In Igloolik, he began by explaining the legal system in simple terms and by introducing the other members of the court, who flew along with him. There was a court clerk and a court recorder, a crown attorney who prosecuted the cases from a few notes made by the arresting Mountie, and a legal-aid counsel who prepared a defense after similarly sketchy study...
...guidebook field during the mid-1800s, just as Fielding does today. For kings and governments may err,/ But never Mr. Baedeker, wrote Poet A. P. Herbert. Stolid and scholarly, an indefatigable wanderer and meticulous researcher, Baedeker was the first guidebook writer to rate hotels and restaurants with a star system (similar to that employed by France's Michelin guides today); he was also a culture demon who directed his readers to every landmark and royal pigeon roost...