Word: avoiders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group of New England farmers at a town meeting wants to tear down the town's last covered bridge to avoid paying the $3000 needed to keep it in good repair. The town selectmen, however, have different ideas, and manage to swing the meeting over to their side, by reminding them of other possible costs. Cooke writes, $3.000, it was suddenly discovered, looked like a bargain. So they voted it, in theory to preserve the "old wooden covered bridge," in fact as an insurance premium against damage suits and as a bait to hook the nibbling "historical element...
What the Air Force wants is dubbed an "Advanced Manned Strategic Aircraft" (AMSA). Built more like a rocket than a plane, the new bomber would hit a top speed of Mach 2.5 (1,800 m.p.h.) at high altitude on the way to its target. Then, swooping low to avoid detection by enemy radar, it would slow to Mach 1.2 (790 m.p.h.) in the denser air. With a crew of four, it would carry a payload twice that of the B-52 and, with mid-air refueling, would have a range of more than 6,000 miles...
...white French license plate. South Viet Nam maintains a legation in Paris. The North Vietnamese have the lowest diplomatic status available, that of a mission. The N.L.F. has no status at all. Because the N.L.F. delegates all carry North Vietnamese passports for travel purposes, the French helped them avoid the embarrassment of showing a Hanoi passport by admitting them on a laissez-passer...
Despite bright expectations that PBL could avoid bickering and office politics, the lab became embroiled in the same sort of power struggles so notorious at the commercial networks. Executive Director Westin, a 39-year-old former CBS producer, was the hapless mediator. His staff members were fractious because they did not feel they had freedom enough to experiment. The managers of many of the 130-odd public TV stations that carry PBL protested, on the contrary, that the programming was too avant-garde for their audiences. As the lab seemed to flounder, the Editorial Policy Board, a group of outsiders...
...only one combustion chamber, one propellant injector and one nozzle. All these must operate reliably to avoid disaster...