Word: giving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such a society will not just serve the individual but give him an opportunity to serve. When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless; they no longer feel rootless. Without allegiance and commitment, individual freedom degenerates into a sterile self-preoccupation...
...path. New cameras use "folded optics" to produce telescopic closeups in black-and-white or on new, grainless color film-which can be dropped in pods and parachuted to waiting intelligence officers. When sensitive receivers detect incoming radar pulses, the Blackbird can dip into its bag of tricks and give itself "electronic invisibility." There is even a top-secret method of masking the SR-71's heat emissions to confuse enemy infrared tracking. Put together in one package, the sophisticated gadgetry makes the Blackbird all but invulnerable-the next best thing to a manned, orbiting...
...human is born with a hereditary capacity to be bright, stupid or anything in between. His starting position on the intelligence scale is predetermined-a biological sentence, like the one that orders tigers to give birth to tiger cubs and the human female to produce human babies. But nothing prevents a normal man from enriching his intellectual birthright, if it is allowed to mature in a hospitable environment. The obverse is equally true. Potential geniuses, deprived of suitable stimulation, will never fulfill their endowment...
...firm that competitors call "the General Motors of the agency business" last week announced plans to invite the public along for the ride. J.W.T. filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to make a public stock offering. This would enable the agency to reward its people more handsomely and give it cash to expand beyond last year's record billings of $638 million...
...company and controls a New Jersey electronics firm. By establishing a market for the stock, the offering will fix its value and make it unnecessary for the company to buy back shares held by retiring executives. The offering will also help solve Seymour's problem of "how to give 7,500 employees in 55 offices around the world the idea of a real stake" in the firm's annual gross. J.W.T. will be able to issue more generous stock options, which U.S. firms find are increasingly necessary to attract and keep creative people...