Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Armed Forces. The draft was extended for four more years; a new reserve plan was established. Under the new program, every young man will have a long-range obligation for military service, but can avoid the draft by signing up at the age of 17 to 19 for six months' training, 7½ years duty in the ready reserve. In five years, the ready (continuously trained and organized) reserve will go up from 800,000 to 2,900,000 and the second-line standby reserve will go up from 220,000 to 2,000,000. In other legislation...
Another city that has managed to avoid a massive parking headache is Los Angeles, which has more cars per capita (one for every two persons) than any other city in the world. When it banned curb-parking downtown, 42,000 off-street spaces at fair rates were provided. To head off future parking problems, Los Angeles County passed zoning laws that require nearly all new buildings and houses to include adequate off-street parking, e.g., one space for every two employees in an industrial building, one space for every ten seats in a church, one space per new house...
...uninhibited outspokenness. Once, when the other committeemen were out of town, he accepted a toast to the Soviet government: "I can drink to that. Tonight, I am the Soviet government." Bulganin's pet refrain since he started partygoing has been that the Soviet Union is determined to avoid war. "Down with war," he shouted at a recent reception. "I say that as commanding general of all the armed forces of the Soviet Union." Later, a champagne cork popped loudly, and Bulganin quickly added: "Let's use these instead of cannon." The cannon, however, are also still available...
...Arizona, guest ranches once advertised desert seclusion. Now surrounded by housing developments and shopping centers, they are eying distant locations, wondering how far to retreat to avoid still another move. As the settlers push out of Los Angeles, buying up one desert tract after another, realtors bulldoze farther and farther into the desert...
...were familiar to newspaper readers across the U.S. Everyone knew that the youngster was safe, but no one could say that she had not been harmed. Hildy McCoy, born out of wedlock to a Roman Catholic mother, was the innocent victim of a bitter and poignant custody case. To avoid giving her up, her Jewish foster parents had hidden her in defiance of Massachusetts...