Word: convertible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that new lift devices will partially offset the weight problem, also hope to improve the F-111B's engine and eliminate kinks in its special missile system. But the Navy has been unhappy with the program all along, makes no secret of its interest in a proposal to convert McDonnell Aircraft's F-4 fighter plane, a workhorse of the U.S. air effort in Viet Nam, into a swing-wing craft to replace the F-111B...
American-backed research has already begun that immense catch-up task. Mexico was able to convert its wheat deficit into a small surplus at least partly because the Rockefeller Foundation helped Mexican scientists to develop new high-yielding varieties, which are stubby enough not to topple over of their own weight (as native wheat did) when heavily fertilized. Transplanted, the Mexican wheat is now doubling yields in West Pakistan, undergoing tests in India. In 1962, the Ford and Rockefeller foundations jointly set up an International Rice Research Institute near Manila. Already, its 20 scientists-half Americans, half Asians-have crossbred...
...Methodist bishops, went Rudyard Kipling's Recessional, with its colonialist reference to "lesser breeds without the law"; the hymnal includes five Negro spirituals, carefully edited to exclude dialect wording. Reflecting the musical cross-fertilization inspired by church missionaries, there is one hymn (The Righteous Ones) by a Thai convert to Christianity, another based on an African chant...
...Idea of Conscience. The Protestants and Catholics found much to admire in each other's religious traditions. Episcopalian Herb Elliott, an engineer at the Boeing Co., liked the Catholic emphasis on attending services every Sunday; Kay Zupan, a convert to Catholicism, approved the Protestant notion of individual responsibility in spiritual matters. "Your idea of conscience is something that appeals very much to me," she told the Protestant members of the group...
Philadelphia and Canton generated enough headlines and shocking TV footage to convert the march into a national cause celebre-and the celebrities began streaming toward Jackson. Comedian Dick Gregory, Showman Sammy Davis Jr. and Actor Marlon Brando turned up in Tougaloo to perform for the marchers the night before their seven-mile trek into Jackson. Meredith, recovered from his wounds, also flew back but at first refused to have anything to do with the main body of marchers, with the cryptic comment: "There have been some shenanigans going on that I don't like." In the end, Meredith decided...