Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when they refused to answer, the V.C. did not press them further. A specialist in acupuncture stuck pins in their scalps by way of a medical examination, and a political cadre dropped in to try to work on Dodson, a Negro, by citing racial injustice in the U.S. The effect was to make Dodson burn, baby, burn. They also were compelled to buy candy, cookies and papaya at exorbitant prices to supplement their diets. "It was the most expensive prison camp in the world," cracks Dodson who spent $76 in his six weeks there...
More and more lawyers are now advising clients to set up "revocable inter vivos [living] trusts," which in effect act as a conduit during a man's lifetime for the transfer of his property to his heirs. The creator of such a trust, however, retains full control of it, and as a result he escapes federal gift taxes, though not estate or income taxes on whatever the trust earns. He can change the trust as he pleases until he dies. The trust thus takes the place of a will-and all property that goes into it bypasses probate...
...booming because the onetime farmland they serve is now becoming suburbanized as homeowners and businesses both spread out from the cities. Under a 1913 compact with the U.S. Attorney General, A. T. & T. agreed to acquire no more independents and to provide connecting service with those that remained; the effect was to concentrate Bell service in cities where telephone demands were bigger. The country was largely left to the independents, who sometimes strung their wire along fences and made the party line famous. Now the independents turn out to have good growth areas and their revenues have been increasing...
...compressor bearings. Pilots have had to call off flights just before takeoff because they have found oil pressure too low, and with as many as four Vanguards at a time in the shop for repairs, often due to a shortage of spare parts, the fault has had a snowball effect on BEA schedules. The newer three-jet Trident is also having troubles, though less serious...
...harp. He is allowed to end the show as Shakespeare wrote it, singing "When that I was" all alone on stage. The lights go down, stars come out on a dark blue cyclorama, and Mathews punctuates his five verses with the tintinnabulation of tiny finger-bells. The effect is charming. How much more so it would be with a professional singer...