Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each side is likely to be guarded in revealing its plans-is in two new-generation weapon systems now under development. One is offensive, the other defensive. Offensively, the U.S. has already tested its Hydra-headed MIRV (for multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicle), which enables one launcher to drop separate nuclear warheads on widely scattered targets. The Soviets are working on the same weapon, though the U.S. is generally thought to be ahead. Defensively, the U.S. Safeguard antiballistic-missile system has just narrowly won Senate approval; the Soviets already have 67 relatively unsophisticated Galosh ABMs dug in around Moscow...
...Bethel was a neatly symbolic choice for the festival?the Biblical town of that name was a center of idolatry denounced by the prophets Amos and Hosea. To many adults, the festival was a squalid freakout, a monstrous Dionysian revel, where a mob of crazies gathered to drop acid and groove to hours of amplified cacophony. In a classic example of its good gray mannerisms, the New York Times in an editorial compared the Bethel pilgrimage to a march of lemmings toward the sea and rhetorically asked: "What kind of culture is it that can produce so colossal a mess...
...Player later complained. "Just because you're from South Africa, it doesn't mean you're a racist." After the tournament, Player admitted that all through the final round he had been nervously waiting for more trouble. "It was like waiting for the other shoe to drop." It never did. An increased force of police and security guards was finally able to restore tranquility to the greens...
...most important harbinger of gains against inflation was an easing of the high interest rates that have been increasingly pinching borrowers this year. The decline reflected a drop in corporate demand for loans to finance expansion and inventory accumulation, which in turn appeared to reflect a lessening of the inflationary psychology that has caused businessmen to borrow in anticipation of ever-rising costs and prices...
Whatever the truth, it is now impossible for the Army to drop the affair quietly. There are doubts, however, that a court-martial would unearth the real story-or that a court-martial will in fact be held...