Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months since President Johnson announced the U.S. military buildup for Viet Nam, draft calls have inched steadily upward. Last month's total - 49,300 - was the highest since early 1951, the peak mobilization period of the Korean War, when 80,000 men a month were called. The effect has been to deplete the nation's 1-A manpower pool to the point at which Selective Service headquarters is now forced to find new ways to replenish...
Nuts & Bolts. Last week Sik and his aides were busy drafting the myriad regulations that will take effect on Jan. 1. These include such nuts-and-bolts matters as the exact level of taxation to be charged on enterprise profits, the exact proportion of bonuses, the exact changes in various wholesale prices arising from the end of subsidy. They may not succeed: the "oxen" with their Stalinist axes have cut down reform before and may stall it again before the New Year rolls around...
...overall effect," explains Lloyd Chiswick, 27, a Stanford University senior, "is studied but complete nonchalance." Says a Princeton junior: "The whole thing is wrapped up in coolness, in both senses of the word." They were talking about the most widespread fad on U.S. campuses, which is not to wear socks-not with sneakers, loafers, sandals or even brogues...
...also interferes with the play's effect. It is a rough spectrum of colored flats that are organized into two sets. But the realistic furniture and the intrusive, mammoth Lowell House chandelier make it seem out of place. It would have been funnier, and more striking to have maintained a single convention, constructing a semi-realistic room that would have incorporated the chandelier into a monstrous parody of the traditional...
Some critics have complained that the camera has crippled this ballet with its frequent close-ups. For years, however, the best-equipped balletomanes have been training their opera-glasses on ballet stars to gain precisely the close-up effect. So what harm to let the camera lens do the work of opera glasses...