Word: directing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threat of direct nuclear clash between the U.S. and Russia has all but vanished for the foreseeable future. The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 taught Moscow how easy it is to slide from cold war gamesmanship toward white-hot holocaust, and the knowledge was profoundly sobering. The possibility of a sneak nuclear attack, while not entirely discounted, is pretty well ruled out by military men; the attacker could not himself escape destruction. Says Herman Kahn, the physicist and Government consultant who popularized the term "escalation": "Barring a blowup in Eastern Europe, there will be no confrontation with the Soviets...
COIC will recruit "about 80" volunteers from Harvard and Radcliffe at Fall registration, Miss Bard said. The CEOC's professional organizers will direct the student's work in Cambridge's six 'opportunity areas," as the neighborhoods where the OEO programs operate have been designated...
...policy these days. Kosygin's trip, after all, was his first planned foray abroad since he took over as Premier 19 months ago. The harsh confrontations that once were Moscow's hallmark from Berlin to the Caribbean no longer occur. Instead the Russians seem anxious to avoid direct conflict with the U.S. Still, the Russian rulers have to maintain anti-imperialist face in order to argue convincingly against their Red Chinese ideological rivals. That task fell last week to Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev...
...effort to clear up the confusion, Kuppermann and Chemist John White have taken an impressive step toward making chemistry exact and predictable: they have made the first direct measurement of the minimum energy required to cause one of the simplest chemical reactions known to science. An absolute minimum of one-third of an electron volt is needed, they discovered, to split a hydrogen molecule into two hydrogen atoms and to combine one of them with a deuterium atom to form deuterium hydride. An addition of any less energy and the reaction will not occur...
...balance of payments jumped to an annual rate of $2.3 billion in the first quarter, up from last year's $1.3 billion. Fowler also conceded that the U.S. has surrendered just about all hopes of achieving a balance as long as the war in Viet Nam continues. The direct and indirect costs of Viet Nam, he estimated, will increase the U.S.'s deficit by at least $1.4 billion this year...