Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nevada Test Site northwest of Las Vegas, which saw its last nuclear explosion in 1958 when the U.S. and Russia informally agreed to stop testing. But the specter of the bomb still hangs over the landscape: the man who cares for the cattle rides the range with a radiation counter clipped to his shirt pocket. Last week, with resumption of testing still in the balance, the atomic cowpoke had plenty of company. Never abandoned by the AEC, the test site has blossomed with activity...
Donald's own academic career has run counter to the trend he laments. Since 1948 he has written six books on the Civil War era, culminating last year with the first volume of his biography of Charles Summer. Charies Summer and the Coming of the Civil War traced the career of the fiery, antislavery Massachusetts Senator from his birth in 1311 up to 1861, when his party swept into power behind Abraham Lincoln. Donald was awarded the Pulitzer prize for the book...
...likely than a "limited war," which would be fought by conventional armies backed up, if need be, by tactical atomic weapons. Many U.S. military men claim that the U.S. is now prepared for limited warfare, but Taylor has argued time and again that the U.S. is ill-equipped to counter aggression with any means but the "inflexible response" of nuclear retaliation...
...president of a brokerage house at 20, got friendly with Big Investor Charles Allen (who holds a dominant interest in Teleregister), was made chairman of Allen's ACF-Wrigley food stores before taking his new job. Hirschfield now plans to market stock boards that will include over-the-counter securities...
...Broad? Many Wall Streeters, concerned about the Street's reputation, were not hostile to an investigation. For years responsible brokerage houses have been scandalized by the free-wheeling practices of the over-the-counter market, have regarded the succession of "hot issues" born there as just a way for some insiders to make a fast buck. Several mutual funds have been sued over the large fees they pay advisers, and mutual fund salesmen are widely regarded on the Street as men who sell stocks (and collect high commissions) much as door-to-door salesmen peddle Christmas cards...