Word: affectivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harlem's Representative Adam Clayton Powell (too soft to inflict permanent damage). Bailey is engaged in a desperate fight in a newly created district against popular Arch Alfred Moore, 39, the state's lone Republican in Congress. Few people thought that Kennedy's speech would affect the outcome. But there was little doubt about one thing: if West Virginians had it all to do over again, they would send Jack Kennedy on his way to the White House...
...have cooperated with the military originally said there would be no change in the radiation belts. Hence Kennedy's offhand remark at a press conference before the explosion: "I know there's been a disturbance about the Van Allen belt, but Van Allen says it's not going to affect the belt, and it's his." Immediately after the test, however, Van Allen claimed to have predicated all along that that there would be a dramatic though temporary perturbation in "his belt" along with the creation of an intense, short-lived artificial belt. Thus in Time's "Brief Danger" article...
Defying Tradition. Powell was plainly overconfident. He did not campaign in the primary until the final five days, claimed that his activity was limited by a mild heart attack last March. At the same time, he argued that his illness should not affect his future, spent a lot of time on the golf course, fulfilled his duties as chairman of the national Governors' Conference. By failing to appoint Mrs. Doloris Bridges to the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Republican Senator Styles Bridges, Powell angered influential right-wing Publisher W'illiam Loeb of the Manchester Union...
...Telstar has been unharmed; its solar cells are covered by protective windows of sapphire. In the future, says NASA, all its satellites will have sapphire windows; other necessary changes have not yet been determined. Though the problem is serious, NASA's experts think the new radiation will not affect manned U.S. satellite flights...
...rise of the new men has not yet wiped out the European conviction that a company's profit figures are to be guarded like nuclear secrets. But to a growing degree, European executives are recognizing that public opinion does affect their business. Though his predecessor as chairman of Belgium's Société Générale was so aloof that he Defused even to release his photo for publication, new Chairman Max Nokin freely allows both pictures and interviews in an effort to counter charges that his firm is meddling in Congolese politics. More important...