Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teaching load. "I don't know how much permanent value there is to just rubbing shoulders with great names," says Chicago English Chairman Gwin J. Kolb. Ivy League and West Coast schools tend to use the artist in informal seminars, then let him work while students kibitz or wait to nail him at coffee breaks. At Wisconsin, Painter Aaron Bohrod avoids talks, just keeps his studio open. "Fascinating verbalists may not lead you to the understanding that a shrug of the shoulders can," he says. Many colleges use performing artists primarily to direct student productions in drama, music...
Midwestern students are turning to the ski slopes of Aspen, Colo., and Taos, N. Mex., while West Coast kids like Mammoth Mountain in the Sierras, which is now so swamped that skiers wait 45 minutes for a lift. A few students, here and there, are going all the way to Italy or Spain. And, as ever, there is also a small clique of connoisseurs who insist on going to a great place called New York...
Outdoorsy Place. "We frankly can hardly wait to see the Renaissance stuff," says Billy Al Bengston, one of Los Angeles' pop artists. He is hardly alone. Although the doors will not officially open until this week, museum memberships (at $10 each) have been rolling in at the rate of 200 a day for months. Director Brown expects more than 2,000,000 visitors in the first year, and one aide fears that it might reach...
...sharp division among the members suggests to some church observers that the mind of the church is not yet "mature" on the subject. Thus, even though millions of married Catholics hang intently on the decision, prudent Pope Paul may choose to say nothing at all, preferring to wait for some new medical discovery or the evolution of a firm theological consensus...
...computer-run systems that will land a plane in almost any weather without human help. A new "talking computer" at the New York Stock Exchange recently began providing instant stock quotations over a special telephone. In Chicago a drive-in computer center now processes information for customers while they wait, much as in a Laundromat. The New York Central recently scored a first among the world's railroads by installing computer-fed TV devices that will provide instant information on the location of any of the 125,000 freight cars on the road's 10,000 miles...