Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because laws, highways and the human personality are difficult to alter, Detroit is beginning to realize that it will have to try harder to improve the car itself. To what extent could new designs reduce fatalities? Safety engineers at Harvard, Cornell, some of the insurance companies and in the Government believe that it is possible to build a stylish and economical yet fairly fail-safe car that would cut highway casualties by half. Achieving that would require, among other things, more reliable brakes and sturdier tires, bigger mirrors, better window visibility, and other devices to help prevent the "first collision...
Last April the Times editorialized: "President Johnson's offer of 'unconditional discussions' was a splendid move on the diplomatic/political front, in the effort to achieve a peaceful solution of the quarrel." Sulzberger dissented: "It is fair to ask why Mr. Johnson chose this moment seemingly to alter a Viet Nam strategy that had but recently become more resolute. Waving a carrot may be seen by our adversaries as a sign of weakness." Times editorials have consistently called for deescalation: "What the U.S. is doing in Viet Nam is playing directly into the hands of Communist China...
Washington did not rise to the bait. "1969 is quite a long way off," remarked one U.S. diplomat, aware that many things could alter France's attitude between now and then-including the departure of Charles de Gaulle. In any case, plans have been made to cope with outright ouster. Already the day-to-day supply of the U.S. Seventh Army in Germany is based not on French ports but on Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hamburg. And though it would cost at least $700 million, the U.S. could move most of its facilities in France to the Low Countries...
...bill which was sent to Congress would not immediately alter the basic structure of the NDEA loan program, though it would eventually lead to almost complete ourtailment of these loans, probably within the next few years...
...Casey and Joyce, the play might have existed, but not so good a play. Friel utilizes reverie, flashback, and stream of consciousness, but his cleverest device is to divide Gareth O'Donnell into a public and private self played, respectively, by Patrick Bedford and Donal Donnelly. This palpable alter ego, invisible to the other characters, acts as a jazzy Greek chorus, a human pep pill, and a court jester. He laughs when the hero cries and cries when the hero laughs-an alert, ironic, ever-present border guard to keep self-pity from invading pity...