Word: broad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...employed to confuse the defenders and force them to waste precious ABMs. The presumption has been all along that the Chinese, who do not yet have an ICBM force in being, could not produce so sophisticated a first-generation missile. Still, Peking will certainly develop its missiles with a broad general knowledge of U.S. defense concepts. "Their deployment," Bethe said recently, "will probably be determined by our ABM system. How long our ABM could keep ahead of them is open to question. It may be a few years?or months." Other specialists point out that if the Chinese really wanted...
...powerful Association of American Railroads' lobby has managed to block broad federal legislation that would set minimum safety standards like those required of airlines. A regulatory bill introduced during the last session of Congress got only as far as the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, where it suffered a quiet death...
...Committee and its important Aviation Subcommittee, wrote CAB Chairman John Crooker. Magnuson asked the CAB to retain Youth Fare on "national interest" grounds--for which, conceivably, justification may be found in the 1958 Federal Aviation Act. The Magnuson letter stresses the role of Youth Fare in making possible the broad formal and informal education "so essential in our modern society." Congressman Olsen, in addition, has initiated a national campaign to flood the CAB with letters from students urging retention...
...Broad jumper Noel Hare and high jumper Jim Coleman successfully defeated Princeton challenges at the Heps. Hare edged Princeton's Ed Voocher by only one inch, however, and is expecting a tough contest today...
Scott Fraser, a social psychologist at New York University, was one of the observers who kept round-the-clock vigils over the car for 64 hours. What surprised him was that most of the car stripping took place in broad daylight. All of the theft was done by clean-cut, well-dressed middle-class people. Furthermore, the major theft and damage was always observed by someone else. "Sometimes passersby would engage in casual conversation with the miscreants," says Fraser...