Word: floundering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SUMMER FUN (ABC. 8-8:30 p.m.). Keenan Wynn captains an incredible ship of fools awash on the Caribbean during the early 1800s in "The Pirates of Flounder...
...Okla. This season it looked as though he had all but stopped. The once grand .365 of 1957 has withered to .281, and Mantle, his aching legs taped from ankle to thigh, has seemed merely a $100,000 ghost of a great, while the once fearsome New York Yankees flounder in eighth place, 19½ games behind the leading Baltimore Orioles...
...Turtle, Lockheed's odd-looking entry, is lens-shaped to allow it to scoot along the bottom like a flounder. After experiments with a small, self-propelled model, Designer Willy Fiedler decided that the lenticular shape, made of two strong metal saucers joined at their edges, is the best for the moderately deep ocean. It will resist pressure and have more maneuverability than a sphere. Dr. Fiedler hopes to use it to spy on fish and learn to catch them cheaply. It can repair damaged cables and bury radioactive wastes in the ocean bottom. Lockheed has high hopes...
Many of the books now pouring off the presses on the race issue hesitate, falter, flounder and peter out in mawkish sentimentality or pious preaching. This book by Charles Silberman, a FORTUNE magazine editor, marches in no-nonsense fashion to a number of hard truths that are not meant to comfort or console. It is impossible, writes Silberman, "to tell the truth about race relations without offending and angering men of both colors." Some Silberman points...
Academically, the public schools are left to flounder. The Roman Catholic schools, with nearly half as many students as the public system, draw off most of the brightest. The public system has only 43 remedial-reading teachers, although students at all levels are at least six months behind the norm on standardized reading tests. In an area that cries for electronics techni cians, vocational schools still teach cabinetmaking. In all of Boston's high schools, there are only 18 guidance counselors, and only a quarter of the graduates go on to college. Of this number, more than half...