Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 2:30-4 p.m.). The Canadian Grand Prix from Mosport, Ont., with Formula One cars, is the first auto race for world-championship points to be televised live...
...information from actual standings is translated by computers into curves representing the relative advantage for performance at Harvard of the whole range of verbal aptitude and achievement scores. Several curves of like derivation are drawn for rank in class to take care of the wide variance in the size of high school classes...
...implausible: he claims to have found one couple who learned to make love in a tiny Citroën "Deux Chevaux" auto-after they persuaded the man's dog to remain in the back seat. Serious social scientists are not sure that Baroche interviewed a sufficiently wide variety of Frenchmen to reach any valid conclusions. Still, he talked to enough to find one man who asked, "How does it happen that I have never deceived my wife?" then shrugged and answered his own question: "I don't want to complicate my life. I must be the exception that...
...sudden devaluation of the franc last month won wide admiration as a model of deft financial maneuvering. But its ultimate success depends on the follow-through-whether or not France can curb inflation before the trade ad vantages of a cheaper franc are frittered away in rising prices. Last week, as Frenchmen returned to work after their August holiday, the Pompidou government greeted them with news of austerity to come. Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing announced an at tack on inflation that will employ nearly every fiscal and monetary weapon available to modern governments...
...years. It may be the most glorious bacchanal in the history of the cinema. At its opening last week at the Venice Film Festival, that promise seemed to be fulfilled. The normally reserved press corps gave the film a five-minute ovation, and the first-night audience was equally wide-eyed. Wrote one critic: "Satyricon is like an Atlantis that has emerged from .the deepest roots of the soul to mark the return of Fellini...