Word: drop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also capable of communicating with inanimate objects (in one such experiment Hubbard was in touch with tomatoes). By watching the fluctuations of a needle, Scientologist "auditors" can supposedly discern when a student has become "clear" and has attained "total awareness and freedom.'' Students attempting to drop out before becoming "clear" have been subjected to hard-sell pitches advising them...
...income-tax surcharge enacted in late June. Unless the credit brakes were eased, so their argument ran, the combination of both fiscal and monetary restraint could slow the economy too much and create the risk of a mini-recession. To offset such economic drags as a sharp drop in steel buying, a leveling off in defense outlays and the anticipated decline in consumer spending, the Administration counts on a major rebound in housing construction. Yet despite a huge backlog of unfilled demand for new housing, the result of the 1966 credit squeeze that crippled the industry for a year...
...large measure, his current success flows from the ineptness or vulnerability of his opponents inside the party. George Romney, first in the ring, was the first to drop out. Ronald Reagan had possibilities, but was too new on the scene and too rigid in his views. Nelson Rockefeller, while a strong and attractive candidate in many ways, has never fully understood the differences between the politics of nomination and the politics of election. In three leap years, he approached the party as if it were a collection of voters on election eve instead of a coalition of interests about...
Growing Hobby. Collision danger, to be sure, is still remote, but Roth figures that precaution is called for. Five years ago, as head of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Denver Moonwatch Team, he became interested in the problems of satellite reentry. To help scientists predict the debris' drop more precisely, he organized flight crews into the Voluntary Flight Officer Network and asked them to report all satellite sightings...
...hostess. How did Graham Greene find the food in Argentina? "I like to drink more than I like to eat," he smiled. "That is a joke," interrupted Victoria Ocampo, noted essayist and editor, "because he has come to a house where the hostess does not touch a drop of alcohol." No kidding, continued Greene, he found the Argentine whisky he was served "interesting but not very good." Er, and politics? "I am a great admirer of Fidel Castro," said Greene, after which Miss Ocampo allowed as how she was "an admirer of Gandhi and Nehru but had not been converted...