Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Newsweek, which devoted an entire issue to the '60s, promised "the tourist who really wants to get away from it all-safaris in Viet Nam." Alaska, Newsweek foresaw, would grow in population "from 225,000 to 500,000" (present population: 281,000). And Hollywood "will hold its own" against television with "fewer and more spectacular films," despite such advances as "wall-size screens" and "various kinds...
...price tag is modest: $91 million per year for the recommended new programs, plus continuing the growth of federal funding for present social science projects at a rate of 12% to 18% each year. Bills embodying some ideas in the report have been introduced in Congress during the past two years, but have made little real progress. Nonetheless, the BASS report and its counterparts released in the past 18 months by other groups put social scientists on notice. "If they are to contribute effectively to the quality of life," warns the BASS committee, "they may have to move more rapidly...
Kenneth Winetrout, 57, American International College, Springfield, Mass.: "In our present-day world, it is not enough to be scholarly; one must also be concerned enough to shout. It is not enough to understand the world; one must also seek to change...
...point on which all the warring factions agree is that doctors should be far more careful before giving the present vaccine. Children with leukemia, or on steroid drugs that depress the immune reaction, obviously should not be vaccinated. Nor should a child with eczema or a history of recent eczema be vaccinated-certainly not without VIG -because cowpox may cause a fulminating and occasionally fatal exacerbation of eczema. But doctors and nurses often do not take the time to ask the right questions...
...Orange Blazers. For the Voices -24 black ghetto youngsters from East Harlem-all this attention is astonishing. The present group got going a year and a half ago with help from urban development programs trying to encourage neighborhood kids to keep off the streets. It rehearses in an empty supermarket purchased by The Vincent Astor Foundation. Under such auspices, the vocal results might have been expected to be worthy, therapeutic, useful-anything but exciting entertainment...