Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...full moon on a warm night-there is great opportunity, but you must make the very most of the opportunity." In an ingenious device to keep the teaching and research duties of the faculty in balance, teachers draw half their pay from their college, half from campus-wide "boards of studies" that supervise their academic fields...
...Sunglasses now sell faster than lipstick and makeup," says Sea & Ski Corp. President William Randall. "Women buy wardrobes of them, just as they do shoes." And like all fashions, variety is their spice. This spring the vogue is for bold geometries: big, wide rectangles, squares, octagons and ovals, in dazzling op designs. Frames come in all black, all white, one eye black and the other white, black and white stripes, checks, or combinations of both. Just for fun, some glasses come armed with roll-up awnings and huge fake eyelashes; others sport spectacular papier-mâché designs glued...
...ways, the home-town coverage for which it won its prize presents the biggest problems for the Times. With 4,800 sq. mi. of overlapping, interlocking governments, Los Angeles is a city editor's nightmare. To cover the sprawl, Metropolitan Editor Bill Thomas now assigns reporters to metropolitan-wide specialties-rapid transit, smog, property taxes. In its ceaseless search for talent, the Times has the hardest time locating competent copy editors, who are now in short supply across the nation. To fill the gap, the paper is about to embark on a program of recruiting copy editors straight from...
...half of nuts and bolts to hold it together and a four-ton concrete foundation. At present, it is the largest Calder in the Western Hemisphere. But not for long. The silver-haired tinker is already at work on a 65-ft.-high by 94-ft-wide stabile in unpainted stainless steel, to be set on an island in the St. Lawrence in time for the 1967 Montreal World's Fair. Its name...
...Jethro Furber, the outrageously vivid villain of this orgiastically original first novel, William Gass presents a hilarious portrait of the Puritan as a dirty old man. In Brackett Omensetter, the "wide and happy" hero of the book, he offers an archetypal antithesis: "Like the clouds, he was natural and beautiful, like a piece of weather in the room. Life eased from him like a smooth broad crayon line. He knew the secret...