Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The finals of the National A.A.U. Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship, and the Langhorne (Pa.) 100, a race for Indianapolis-type cars...
...seemed headed for nowhere. Screen writer Dale Wasserman had turned out a television play, I, Don Quixote, a two-story project that tried to tell of Cervantes and Don Quixote at the same time. Wasserman decided that it was a failure "because it aimed a little too high and wide for the medium." So he tried to turn it into a play, then a musical. By 1962 he had fashioned an interesting if offbeat script dealing with Cervantes' windmill-tilting life. And tilting a little himself, he started collaborating with a couple of unknowns, Songwriter Mitch Leigh and Lyricist...
...disadvantaged are "pampered" children or those whose parents "are obsessed with the need to impress and achieve" and "show them little love." For all children, says the report, the first four or five years of life are the period of most rapid mental growth in which "exposure to a wide variety of activities and of social and mental interactions greatly enhances a child's ability to learn...
...Chicago's horde of boosters, who are always dreaming up new ways to celebrate the virtues of their city, Royko once proposed a unique affair. "We are only a few gunshots away from recording our 1,000th 'gangland slaying'-nine away, to be exact. A city wide 1,000th-Hit Festival could be held. There could be a fireworks display in Soldier Field-with exploding cars. Someone from the police department might even make a speech about its role. Since it has solved only two of the 991 cases, the speech need not take long...
...Ulysses S. Grant. World War I produced no military heroes unless it was Sergeant York, a man of peace reacting to pressure. World War II and after showed a growing sophistication in American taste in war heroes. The dashing George Patton was ranked well behind the judicious men of wide responsibility such as Eisenhower, Bradley, Marshall...