Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...measures, and in fact has drawn up a three-option contingency plan. In one version, U.S. troops would be helilifted in and out of Laos in rapid, frequent strikes against the trail. Another calls for the insertion of a sizable U.S. force, at least two divisions, into Laos to block the trail physically. The final and most far-out plan envisions a massive U.S. troops barrier drawn along the 17th parallel all the way across South Viet Nam, Laos and northern Thailand...
...available, regularly use computers. Like the system at such other schools as Caltech, Dartmouth and Carnegie Tech, much of M.I.T.'s computer activity involves students' processing individual research data on the machines. At Texas A. & M., students drop their computer data at a window, walk half a block to find the answers waiting on a table-and find the process so pleasant that they dub these evening sessions "happy hours...
Tight Suitcase. Besides, Johnny cannot walk a block without being bugged for autographs or buttonholed by chirping women who invariably announce: "I undress in front of you every night, and my husband doesn't mind." Equally oppressive are the men who ask coyly: "Can't you come on a little earlier-you're ruining our love life." Carson knows these lines well: he has used them himself. Still, he laughs on the outside, cringes on the inside, and shrugs, "I guess it goes with...
...need for this key building block of the universe became so great that in 1962 Physicists Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig, working independently, devised and described hypothetical particles that would meet all of the necessary requirements. Gell-Mann insisted that his particle, which he called the quark,*was simply a theoretical tool useful in describing the nature of subatomic particles; it did not necessarily have to exist. But ever since, physicists have been searching in vain for a real quark. Now two British scientists, writing in Nature, have suggested that the search for the quark be conducted...
...year extension of the Act is in trouble in the House, and it will need Southern Democratic support. The Johnson Administration is in a dilemma. If it insists on retaining the guidelines, Southerners may back a Republican drive to have the aid given to the states in block grants, instead of earmarking money for individual programs. The Republican plan could jeopardize the entire aid bill, igniting questions of state vs. federal control, aid to parochial schools, and wealthy vs. poor states...