Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trend began three years ago when Boston's KLH, long a big name in hi-fi speakers, put out a $200 portable unit. It could not reach down to pick up the very lowest notes on the organ, but it did reach a market of music lovers who were willing to forgo a few notes to save hundreds of dollars and considerable bother...
What are they buying? Cars, of course, and all the usual retail goods. But the U.S. consumer seems to keep finding new outlets for his buying urge: he has boosted the sales of electric guitars and banjos as part of the folk-rock trend, lifted the men's cosmetics industry to a $35 million business in recent years, is buying more jewelry than ever. He looks less at the price tag nowadays than at quality, fashion, style, color. The biggest new main-line item is the color-TV set. Stores are selling all they can get-and in some...
...articles (one by federal housing official Robert Weaver) deal with New Towns, i.e. autonomous suburban communities planned and created in one stroke. Their main point of agreement is an insistence that lower-income housing be included. Both articles point out a trend toward upper-income New Towns; but as graduate student David Dasch observes, no town can exist without garbage men. Two basic assumptions in the design of New Towns seem to be that green expanses should be maximized, and ranch houses eliminated...
...odds are that the hair will continue to grow for at least a year. In London, where the trend has had a few years' start, there is hardly a hair's difference between the sexes. The principal of a technical school in Peterborough recently reprimanded a girl for using the men's lavatory-only to discover that...
...decision was broad and striking. Harvard had affirmed that it alone had the right to judge the fitness of its teachers and that no blanket rule could legitimately be used in deciding such a crucial question as whether a professor would retain his tenure. Harvard's action reversed a trend which had been the cause of growing friction between faculties and administrations across the country and had resulted in feelings of fear and impotence among the nation's professors. The University's decision also helped to check the very real, if unspoken, influence of Congress over the educational policy...