Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such an incentive system has existed since 1954 for civilian Defense Department employees, who last year collected $2,351,980 for 63,581 suggestions that led to savings of $66,171,148. > Approved, in the Senate Public Works Committee, a modified version of the Administration's highway beautification program (see MODERN LIVING). > Approved, in the House Public Works Committee, an omnibus rivers and harbors bill authorizing $1.9 billion for 144 projects, ranging from a $15 million flood-control system in Iowa Republican Representative H. R. Gross's home town of Waterloo to an $83 million initial grant...
...schema on "The Church in the Modern World" (Schema 13) and the declaration on non-Christian religions. Probably the most heavily rewritten of all council documents, Schema 13 is forthright on questions of peace and war-it upholds the right of conscientious objection and denounces massive bombing of civilian centers-but it appears evasive and unsure in dealing with marriage, and it says nothing about birth control. The prospect is that it will get further revision. "We could use another year to work on it," says one Latin American bishop on the drafting committee. As for the declaration...
...days of repeated raids took out the Ban Thach hydroelectric plant 80 miles south of Hanoi. Since the plant was of obvious value to Ho Chi Minh's military organization, its destruction did not mean that the U.S. had decided to escalate the war further by attacking purely civilian targets. Its loss would be felt, however, by the civilians whose browned-out towns had depended on it for what little electricity was available for the area. "It's a way to make the North Viet Nam people know there's a war going on," said...
Gemini 5 had more military research assignments than any previous civilian space flight-a fact that caused Moscow to talk and squawk more about Gemini 5 than any earlier U.S. space mission. Moscow's Tass at first charged that the U.S. was recklessly gambling with the lives of the spacemen on an ill-prepared mission. When it became clear that Gemini would succeed and lead the U.S. far along on its timetable for reaching the moon, the president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Mstislav Keldysh, tried to deflate the news by proclaiming that nobody knows enough about...
...tiny village 90 miles from Huan cayo. Ground forces overran the en campment, killing 20 guerrillas, but an other 40 managed to escape. A few days later, another will-o-the-wisp band of guerrillas attacked the village of Satipo, only 70 miles away, killing two policemen and a civilian before fading back into the hills...