Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bigger but less sensitive Jodrell Bank antenna in Britain. If the need ever rose, Haystack could track an object no bigger than a needle orbiting the earth 500 miles out in space. "Haystack has the same capacity for angular resolution as the human eye," says Project Engineer Herbert G. Weiss, 46. "For its size, it is the most precise movable instrument ever built...
...politics, it seems, bad times make good slogans. Herbert Hoover's promise of "a chicken in every pot" did not get him re-elected in 1932, but it was a far more ingenious catch phrase than the Republicans' 1944 theme, "Time for a change," or "I like Ike" in 1952. And for all John F. Kennedy's eloquence, no Democratic orator since the Depression has matched Franklin D. Roosevelt's phrasemaking prowess on behalf of "the forgotten man." Lyndon Johnson's vision of "the Great Society" is not only vague, but vieille vague as well...
...some of the exhausted, Paul Goodman seems the answer. He leads a new kind of American utopian leftism, a kind which is very sure of itself. Though Goodman has made no specific reference to Herbert Marcuse, his thinking appears to use ideas first formulated by the Frenchman in Eros and Civilization. This approach tries to put mass production, Marx, and Freud into a coherent scheme. The result is a clear possibility for a "non-repressive society...
Although Kennedy's record has received much attention, Kenneth Keating's has not. Keating, an amiable man and capable politician has never stood in New York's tradition of distinguished Senators like Senator Wagner and Herbert Lehman. He has not even gained eminence as a spokesman for liberal Republicanism as have Senators Javits, Kuchel, and Case. On only one issue--the Cuban missile crisis--has Keating come to the forefront; and then at the expense of responsibility...
...Flying Ace Eddie Riclcenbacker, 74. But there were more like Stephen Gregg, 49, who singlehanded cleared a hill of Germans in 1944, then returned to a peacetime job as a New Jersey courtroom supervisor. They seemed delighted to be there - and reluctant to discuss the reasons why. "Hero?" snorted Herbert Hoover Burr, 44, who drove his flaming tank into a German 88-mm.-gun position and destroyed it. "Hell, if I'd been born early enough to fight in the Revolution, I might have been Aaron Burr, not Herb Burr...