Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China's 51-plane airline. The take over was ostensibly a move "to prepare for war," but it was more likely a Mao move to try to head off a total breakdown of transportation. That was not all the army took over. The military commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party announced that the army would take control of the municipal, security and police posts in Peking to ensure "the maintenance of revolutionary order." It was a sweeping grant of powers, and it showed the extent to which Mao must now depend on force rather than persuasion...
...National Student Association revealed late yesterday that it has been subsidized since the early 1950's by the Central Intelligence Agency. NSA president Eugene Groves said that the group has been struggling for two years to break the "covert relationship" and would no longer accept CIA money. The CIA first offered the money, he said, because it wanted to counter Communist-sponsored youth activities...
...December when they realized that the number of signers had dropped to 85 as a result of withdrawals and miscounting. It took only a few quick calls, however, to restore the figure to 100 names. "The signatures were there," says one student leader. "The problem was not having any central organization...
...five demolition workers and snarling midtown traffic for blocks, the N.Y. World Journal Tribune rerouted its delivery trucks by signaling them with an electronic paging device. Later in the same day, the N.Y. Times used a similar instrument to keep in touch with a photographer covering a New York Central train derailment in Harlem...
...Power confuses itself with virtue," argues Fulbright. It "tends also to take itself for omnipotence." In its attempt to "spread the gospel of democracy," he suggests, the U.S. stands in danger of overextending itself. Central to America's messianic urge is "a national mythology, cultivated in Fourth of July speeches and slick publications, which holds that we are a revolutionary society, that ours was the 'true' revolution which ought to be an inspiration for every revolutionary movement in the world." Quite the contrary is true, maintains Fulbright. America is actually an "un-revolutionary society." It fails totally...