Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threaded through the beads relaxed and the dog collapsed; when it was released, the strung-together dog was pulled into shape again. Why not use the same simple principle in a tether? So Marton built a new space line of interlocking aluminum balls and collars, all strung on a central cable. When the cable is loose, the tether is completely flexible, bending at each ball joint. But when tightened by a winch or a similar device, the cable pulls all parts together and in effect freezes the line in whatever position it is in. It then becomes the functional equivalent...
Died. William White, 70, chairman of the Erie Lackawanna Railroad since 1963, a survivor of the days when rails, not planes, carried the U.S. public, who started out at 16 with the Erie, climbed the traditional ladder to the presidency of the New York Central in 1952, only to be forced out two years later in a raucous proxy fight, then moved on to the Delaware and Hudson and the Erie Lackawanna, which he highballed from a $17 million loss in 1963 to a $6,700,000 profit last year; of a heart attack; in Cleveland...
...Rustin's central concern in the civil rights movement is now somewhat more subdued. As the movement shifts from "protest to politics," he says, "it behooves Negroes to cultivate allies in the ranks of liberals and labor." The massive Freedom Budget of the A. Phillip Randolph Institute, of which Rustin is presently Executive Director, is predicated upon this thesis...
...following is a partial list of organizations, now known to have served as Central Intelligence Agency "conduits," which have contributed to various Harvard programs. The list is compiled from Gifts to Harvard since Oct. 1, 1963. Humphrey Doermann's study extended back...
...United States, in the past few years, students have participated in central concerns of national life, such as the Civil Rights movement and the debate over American involvement in the war in Vietnam, more dramatically than ever before in American history...