Word: backstopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the 1964 Goldwater debacle, Laird recognized the need for change within the Republican Party. He decided -and the party agreed-that the Federal Government should be active in such fields as education and welfare, but only as backstop to states and local communities. A leading backer of the Viet Nam war, he made a calculated switch last year and argued that the Republicans must appear as the party of peace, that Viet Nam was something to hang around Lyndon Johnson's neck. Laird does not plan to visit Viet Nam until his appointment is confirmed by the Senate...
...from a "thumbs-down gesture to political assassination." Most important, it rejected the Holmes test. Instead, it followed the Supreme Court's recent tendency to "balance" the interests served by a statute v. free speech. Draft cards are vital to running the draft, said the Appellate Court. They backstop lost records and help control evaders. The need to retain them takes precedence over any alleged right to burn them. Holmesians might be troubled, but the decision hardly suppressed the right to dissent. David Miller and "those who agree with him," said the court, "remain free, as indeed they should...
...their bats and get to first base on interference. The Dodgers' Maury Wills succeeded; the Giants' Matty Alou failed. Pitchers from both clubs traded beanballs. Marichal low-bridged Wills and Ron Fairly. So Koufax took dead aim at Willie Mays. High with the pitch, Koufax hit the backstop instead, growled: "That was a lousy pitch. I meant it to come a lot closer...
Floating Surprise? Naturally, Power feels that the U.S. needs a new strategic bomber. He insists that nuclear bombers can be retained as a backstop deterrent, argues that by firing air-to-ground rockets against antiaircraft installations ahead, among other techniques, more bombers could get through than might be expected. But under present planning, reports Power, within eight to ten years "all B-47s would have long been retired; the remaining B-52s would be worn and obsolete, and the limited number of B-58s would be obsolescent at best," while "for the first time in the history of American strategic...
...appearances and disappearances of TV newscasters are logged by the press with a fan-club fidelity usually reserved for grease paint performers-which perhaps they are. Thus when NBC, eying San Francisco, decided to backstop its top news team of Chet Huntley and Dave Brinkley with another duo, the New York Times duly recorded their names: Ray Scherer and Nancy Dickerson. And when Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. signed Novelist-Playwright Gore Vidal to report both the Republican and Democratic national conventions, the Times gave Vidal's assignment headline prominence-meanwhile leaving unmentioned the names of several dozen experienced Timesmen...