Word: alert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Careless Defendant. At this year's Advocacy Institute ($35), Shapiro's 3,500 students first boned up on two tomes of theory, plus detailed, fictitious depositions. After Yale Professor Fleming James lectured on "reasonable standard of care," they watched courtroom maestros examine "Thomas Covington III," an alert lawyer-actor who insisted that he had taken every precaution before burning grass on his property. A sudden wind gust just happened to whip up the flames that incinerated Neighbor Harvey Williams' $75,000 house, stables and horses...
Nonetheless, President Johnson's concern for the economy was evident in his repeated references to it last week. Sounding the theme that the U.S. could have its boom and beat inflation too, he warned: "We must be alert to assure that the pace of our advance does not become too rapid, endangering the healthy stability and sound balance of our expansion. Yet to conclude that we must proceed cautiously does not mean that we should slam on the brakes or throw the economy into reverse...
Nuclear Clout. In his eagerness to depict the nation's true strength, McNamara even made public such previously classified information as the fact that the number of warheads available to the Strategic Alert Force will have increased from 836 in 1961 to 2,600 by next June, with a tripling of megatonnage. His purpose in publishing such figures, he explained, was "simply to insure that none of us, friend or foe, miscalculates this nation's capability to fulfill its treaty commitments. I can't imagine anything more dangerous...
...Communist fronts under the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950, has had little luck to date. Despite the long-drawn-out appeals that have stymied it in most cases, the department believes nonetheless that simply by publishing the facts about such groups, it can warn away many innocents and alert unwary members. With this in mind, it started proceedings last week to force the campus-oriented W.E.B. DuBois Clubs to register as a Communist front...
Until 5:30 the next morning he stays on the alert for clouds that might obscure the image on his photographic plate or for a sudden movement that could blur it. He nurses his equipment fastidiously as the world's largest telescope swings slowly across the sky, tracking the elusive targets that astronomers call quasars. They are the most distant objects ever seen...