Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Topic's board is convinced that the magazine can break even with a newsstand sale of 65,000 and show a profit at 90,000. It must do so against competition of the sternest sort. The newcomer must buck England's big national Sunday press-eight papers, combined circulation 24 million-some of which, unlike Sunday papers in the U.S., serve many of the functions of a weekly newsmagazine. Topic's own announcements accompanying the first issue called the venture "Britain's biggest publishing gamble" since World War II. In view of the national character...
...watch in the Quincy-Kirkland game will be Ken Anderson and Jeb Shelton, in the Quincy backfield, and Lee Raitz and Ray Waitkins for Kirkland. Kirkland will be running out of its characteristic single wing, bolstered with lots of Princeton-type buck laterals. Quincy uses a wing...
...Army officer. "You always find another layer." Says a top Defense Department official: "I look at the whole mess more in sorrow than in anger." In part, the Army's troubles stem from the Eisenhower Administration's "new look" decision to get a bigger bang for a buck by curtailing the weapons of conventional war and concentrating on the massive nuclear deterrent. From a peak strength of 1,668,579 men and a budget of $21.6 billion during the Korean war, the Army slumped in peacetime to 856,000 men and $9.5 billion...
...first satellite in 1958. Army Research and Development spent millions perfecting the intermediate-range, nuclear-tipped Jupiter missile (no kin to Jupiter-C), only to have it taken away by the Department of Defense and given to the Air Force. Other sorely needed Army funds were spent on such Buck Rogers gimmicks as the one-man helicopter and backpack rockets that would turn an infantryman into a flyboy capable of clearing a building...
...weeded out some 200 officers and men who did not shape up to his standards. Abrams tries every day to get away from the paperwork at his headquarters in Frankfurt, climb aboard his personal Bell helicopter and whirl off to inspect everyone in a unit from bird colonel to buck private. "No one is more deliberate in planning for war," says General Bruce Clarke of Abrams. "No one is more violent in execution...