Word: carleton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those most responsible for bringing Auntie up to date was BBC News Director Hugh Carleton Greene, 49 (brother of Novelist Graham Greene), who this year became director general of the BBC. BBC-TV worked to liven up its prime evening shows (keeping, however, 35% of them "serious" as always), even bought U.S. TV packages such as Sergeant Bilko and Perry Como, both of which proved immensely popular. The result: BBC-TV is gradually winning some of its old audiences back from ITV, now regularly gets a 39% viewership, often clobbers ITV on covering news events...
...clipping off miles with the regularity of an ocean liner. When the fleet of 135 boats finished the 635-mile thrash from Newport to Bermuda last week, the overall winner, for an unprecedented third straight time, was Finisterre, owned and skippered by a shrewd, affable, literary-minded salt named Carleton Mitchell...
Envy & Despair. But Finisterre's glittering record is built on far more than her time allowance. The ocean was thick last week with boats that were flatteringly close copies of Finisterre's hippy lines. Finisterre's greatest asset cannot be duplicated for there is only one Carleton Mitchell, and he has gathered and trained an assortment of veteran yachtsmen into an expert crew that is the envy and despair of rival skippers...
...When Carleton Mitchell had won his race, rival skippers were full of frank praise for him and his crew. Summed up Mosk Farnham, Figaro's navigator: "Whether it blows hard or easy, they give their very best to that boat. They are dedicated to Finisterre...
...will say, 'and give me the superpower antiknock Ethyl think juice, with vitamins added.' And sometimes you will drive off with a hole in your head, when the attendant forgets to replace the cap at the base of your skull." ¶M.I.T. President Julius Stratton, at Carleton College: "The impact of technology upon self-government is to subject the processes of democracy to a complete change of scale. In the massiveness of the effort, the influence of individual leadership is diffused and destroyed . . . Problems are of such colossal magnitude that it becomes virtually impossible to understand them...