Word: type
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fifteen years, high rise commercial and apartment buildings may cluster around the Library site, intruding into Brattle Square and extending down Mt. Auburn St. Many city officials, planners, and architects envision this type of change. They expect the visual and commercial character of the Square to be altered drastically...
...average thrill seeker, if there is such a type, may still be high on LSD. But to serious researchers, it has become as old hat as peyote and marijuana. Meeting last week at San Francisco's University of California Medical Center, 200 experts in psychiatry and pharmacology concentrated instead on the many other mind-altering drugs that are far older historically but now seem new because they have yet to be thoroughly investigated...
...PARICÁ is another snuff, ground and inhaled by the equally primitive Piaroa Indians of southern Venezuela. It has several active ingredients, two containing substances of a type found in brain tissue and another chemically similar to "psychic energizers." So, by centuries-old accident, the Piaroa anticipated modern psychiatrists who only recently discovered that by using several classes of drugs together, they can achieve a synergistic effect-one that is greater than the sum of the separate components. The effects of paricá are little known; no one but the tribal medicine man is allowed...
...some 24,000 people now have nearly $1 billion worth of "deposits" in such funds. Studying twelve swap funds, the Wall Street firm of Arthur Wiesenberger & Co. found that their average per-share value declined 7% last year v. a 1.2% drop for capital gains-type funds and a 2.8% decline for growth funds. The participants scarcely mind. They range from moguls down to Sears, Roebuck employees retiring with large blocs of stock, and they are mostly interested in postponing that capital-gains bite while diversifying under professional management...
...kind of a Mickey Mouse thing," complains a secretary in the Freshman Dean's Office. "We had to type up 340 warning letters to Freshman advisors. Most of the boys only had one or two more...