Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officials relished the idea of the U.S. acting alone. "None of us should be too hurried about getting into this thing," warned Dwight Eisenhower. "Any unilateral action would be a serious mistake." Officially, the Administration agreed, pinning its public hopes on the United Nations to settle the crisis before the Israelis lose patience and try to break the blockade themselves. But many U.S. policymakers are disenchanted with U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, not only for his blatant partisanship on Viet Nam, but also for his aphronic action in pulling the entire U.N. peace-keeping force out of the Sinai desert...
Getting Behind. Son of Major General Robert Olds, an airpower pioneer along with Billy Mitchell, Olds grew up in airplanes, flew 107 missions in P-38 Lightnings and P-51 Mustangs against the Luftwaffe. Olds finds dogfighting little changed from World War II. "The main idea is still to get behind him instead of letting him get behind you. The increased speed requires much faster thinking, and the other big difference is weaponry. It was practically eyeball to eyeball with the machine guns in World War II. We can fire our missiles from 1½ to two miles away, though...
...Foreign Minister George Brown flew off to Moscow to talk it over with the Russians ("What could he possibly do?" sarcastically asked London's Labor-leaning Daily Mirror). The French Cabinet, after an all-day session with Charles de Gaulle, decided that it might be a good idea if all four major powers pitched in together to head off disaster-but stopped short of actually recommending such a move. Moscow, although concerned by the crisis, declined to align itself with the West and suggested disingenuously that the real answer would be for the U.S. and Britain to restrain Israel...
...pushed against the floor through the open end, lifting the can. Recognizing that the unhindered escape of air from the bottom of the can-and from the bottom of early experimental craft-made it too inefficient and unstable for any practical use, Cockerell then conceived the idea of constructing craft with double walls and blowing air down between them. This, in effect, produced a peripheral curtain of air that slowed the escape of compressed air under the hovering vehicle...
Lonely People. The idea started when she began singing along with her 13-year-old daughter's Beatle records at home in Milan, where she has lived since 1950. The plaintive Eleanor Rigby, a lament for lonely people, impressed her as "one of the most beautiful I'd heard in years." She began spicing her recital programs with Beatle numbers, arranged in classic styles by artists such as Pianist Peter Serkin, who scored a contrapuntal Bachground for Yesterday. She has now recorded a dozen Beatle songs on an LP called Revolution, which was recently released...