Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Liberal supporters of the appointments were not altogether unhappy with a temporary delay that would let memories dull and tempers cool. Fortas was on firm ground in refusing to answer questions about past rulings and issues that might be brought before the court in the future, but it still looked odd for a judge, in effect, to "take the Fifth." Though he was open and candid about his relations with the President, even his friends were dismayed by the extent to which Justice Fortas had dou bled as White House adviser. Nor was Fortas' case helped by comments from...
Invisible and Inaudible. The B-52s wheel in from bases in Thailand, on Guam, Okinawa and Taiwan to dump their huge loads. They fly so high that they are virtually invisible, and their bombs detonate on the ground only seconds after the faint whine of their engines is audible-and by then it is too late. They concentrate on areas of Communist pressure-as last week in the Central Highlands near the Cambodian border, where waves of B-52s attempted to break down Communist troop buildups. For a pilot's view of a raid, Robert Wildau of TIME...
Banking and diving on orders from radio-equipped spotters on the ground, six planes flew pass after deadly pass over the lush, green terrain. Were they flushing out Viet Cong? Hardly. The enemy, darting around some 7,000 seaside acres of Monterey County, south of San Francisco, was Microtus californicus, a grey, nocturnal field mouse that measures no more than 4 in. from tip to quivering tail, yet threatens most of the nation's artichoke crop...
Finally, plantings serve to accent city monochromes, with greens and pinks. Although plants are harder to care for than macadam, the flower bed on the traffic island just North of the Common testifies that plants are feasible and refreshing mid-city and even mid-traffic. Limited areas of ground cover like pachysandra, evergreens like taxus, juniper, euonymus and holly, attractive, spare trees like birch, dogwood and Japanese cherry, and protable planters with shurbs and annuals make up a rich vocabulary a landscape architect could choose from to transform Brattle Square...
...terms "strong, trustworthy leadership." Voters, as a whole, seem less outraged by Mayor Lindsay's anguished call that "we've gotten off the track" than by drift in Vietnam, dabbling with inflation, and shilly-shallying on riots. Lyndon Johnson's oft-affirmed practice of seeking a high middle ground has gotten him--and men like Nixon and Humphrey--in more hot water than the grinding poverty and casualty rates which produce the most extreme forms of protest...