Word: controls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...column of marchers then black-flagged their way down to the Lampoon building in Freedom Square where the magazine was rolling a huge birth control pill down Bow Street specifically, for the benefit of a television news camera crew. X, without explanation, halted this demonstration and demanded an end to the English department at Harvard. The ibises and narthexes of the Lampoon got very upset about this; but the newsmen were even more so. They threatened to leave if their news wasn't allowed to proceed as it had been about to. The cameras were consequently allowed to roll amid...
Arms Are Different. Some experts doubt that this idyllic barter will last very long. Says Professor Ernst Halperin, a Latin America expert currently lecturing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "The Russians are not much interested in delivering economic assistance to countries they cannot control. But arms are a completely different question. They are the Russians' main instrument of expansion into an area, as they showed in Guatemala in 1954 and a year later in Egypt...
...water. And the bipolar alliances that arose from the ashes of World War II almost inevitably ensure that a blow struck at a weak nation may be answered by a considerably more powerful ally. As a result, the big powers' key problem is how to control the actions of their smaller brethren: consciously or unconsciously, small nations have come to realize that they can act with relative impunity to achieve their own goals. The United Nations, once looked upon as a potential peace-keeping force, seems as unable to solve miniature clashes as it is to sort out major...
...Brandeis University So-(1939) ciologist Samuel E. Wallace, who helped organize the most recent Bowery research program, "the fact that Skid Rowers share both money and drink is perhaps the most conclusive proof that most of them are not alcoholics; alcoholics would find it exceedingly difficult to exercise the control dictated by group drinking." The New York study also revealed that Skid Row is not the end of the road in the usual despairing sense. Its residents do not fall there, but actively seek it out because it has what they want: odd jobs without purpose or future, a community...
...liquids correpsond to the drums, the slides to guitar and the films to lyrics." And indeed the parallels more or less work. The Road's members are insistent that they have an edge on most light shows, which are pre-programmed on a computer, because they exert human control over their components and so are free to improvise in the attempt to capture the emotional and musical impact of whatever is being played at any one moment. They have a good case...