Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Pueblo's fate is dimming in public memory and Viet Nam troop levels have been stabilized, many reservists feel there is no longer an overriding need for them to stay. "We don't have any idea when it will end," complains Airman First Class Eugene Potter, 21, who left his salesman's job to shuffle papers as a clerk with the 445th Wing. "If we had some kind of idea what we will be doing, we could make plans...
Violated Discipline. The most serious problem, as both Che and Castro make clear, was the hostility of Bolivia's Communist Party and its secretary-general, Mario Monje, to the idea of guerrilla warfare. From the day he arrived in disguise on the deserted cattle ranch that served as the guerrilla base camp, Che was faced with the task of trying to impose his strict martial control on a group that had violated its own party discipline by joining his forces. Castro, in his introduction, bitterly accuses Monje of sabotaging the whole campaign with his "chauvinism and sterile reactionary sentiment...
Ballrooms, no; projection rooms, yes. Poolrooms are back, and pools never went away you will probably want both an indoor and an outdoor one, and the same goes for tennis courts. If you have a separate playhouse, which isn't a bad idea, it will be no trouble to fit in a squash court and a bowling alley, as well as an extra sauna. Family compounds, such as the Rockefellers' 3,500-acre complex near Tarrytown, may also go in for an 18-hole golf course. All this avoids those tense country clubs, where mere millionaires stare...
Imaginative scientists have proposed that powerful laser beams (which actually exert pressure on a surface) be used to push back into correct orbit satellites that have begun to fall toward earth. Others have gone beyond the early idea of a death ray and suggested that laser beams may eventually be powerful enough to provide the ultimate defensive weapon against missiles. Powerful laser beams, they predict, might well make iCBMs obsolete. Focused on an incoming missile, their light would generate enough heat to melt it into uselessness...
Nathanson: You know, you can do a fantastic industrial campaign on the idea of a silent pen. Because just think of the noise level. I mean, nothing is noisier than these competitor's pens. Everybody quiet. Just listen. (He scratches first with the competitor's pen, then with a Flair...