Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effective horror Shurcliffe is able to create, the most important part of his book is its attack on the SSTs' ability to fulfill their main goal: moving people more rapidly. As a greater and greater percentage of travel time is used up by getting to and from the airport, Shurcliffe says that the difference that SSTs will make in transcontinental travel time will be worthless. Decreased reliability of the new planes may mean that more are held up at the airports; and probable limits on SST travel over major urban centers might make the SSTs as practical as Indianapolis racers...
...there is a sense of urgency--and semi-futility -- behind Shurcliffe's mammoth attack. As his League knows, the U.S. push to build the SST is a self-perpetuating process: each year, more and more money has been poured into the project, and thrifty legislators are less and less willing to give up the whole idea. So what Shurcliffe now has to do is convince Congress that it's better to give up what's been invested than to throw away any more. To that end, he spends many pages trying to prove that the SST will be obsolete before...
...ignores the radicals to attack the "sensible students" who request participation in making curriculum, promoting instructors, setting fees, and vetoing investments. According to Barzun, their secret will is not so much to run things as to toss them around. Most of their half-baked reforms are "reactionary," already anticipated and found unworkable by administrators. Often the next class of student activists would decide to reform the reforms or bring back the status quo. He does not cite any examples in support of this view, but goes on to conclude that a large establishment like the American university cannot change itself...
...Sentinel system was promoted by former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara as a shield against a possible Chinese nuclear attack. Critics of the system have charged that the $5 billion project will provide an impetus for building a far more extensive "thick" ABM system to shield against a Soviet attack...
...behind wins. All three were 5-4 wins. In his last bout, which he had to win to keep Harvard's hopes alive, he dropped behind 4-2 only to come roaring back to tie the score at 4-4. With the meet on the line the NYU swordsmen attacked hard, scoring what seemed to be the decisive touch. But the judge ruled that he had been outside the strip when he scored, and Irvings was given new life. Responding to the challenge the spunky sophomore parried another attack and scored the decisive touch on a brilliant repost...