Word: forwarders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fighting back against noise is still mostly a holding action. Dr. Donald F. Hornig, special assistant to President Johnson for science and technology, acknowledged last week that "the generation of noise will get worse with the increase of population density." But here and there, the battle goes forward...
...China's Great Leap Forward, which began in 1958, ground to a halt only three years later in a shambles of rusting backyard iron furnaces and neglected farms. The experiment set the nation back economically a full decade; yet last week the Red Chinese seemed to be gathering strength for another leap. The length and direction of the stride were far from clear in the murky prose pouring out of Peking. What was clear was that Mao Tse-tung was rallying Red China's 700 million people for another supreme effort of some sort, and behind...
Fortnight ago France's Pineau finally came forward and confirmed that "definite arrangements" were made at the meeting. "A treaty like the Anglo-French-Israeli treaty," he said on a BBC interview in London, "was necessarily secret, because the circumstances were very difficult." Pineau felt the time for secrecy was past. "I should think that after ten years," he noted, "it would be possible to say more. If my English friends after this period agree to voice all the truths about this question, I should agree." If any of Pineau's English friends were to speak...
...pages of a phone book. Judge Alexander noted that none of the objecting lawyers actually opposed "the purposes of the war on poverty," and he hailed that fact as evidence of a "rekindling of the American conscience." Said he: "It is in the public interest that this program go forward. Let it begin...
...Mount Rushmore was an American-born Rodin pupil, the late John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum. Back in 1916, he took on the Stone Mountain commission from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, at one time considered marching 1,200 stone Confederate soldiers across the cliff. The project went forward by fits and starts. First, World War I interrupted. Lee's head was finally unveiled in 1924 with a dizzying breakfast for 30 served atop the general's shoulder. But costs were skyrocketing, and a year later Borglum was fired. Furious, the temperamental sculptor destroyed his models...