Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American flag was burned in Central Park's Sheep Meadow during the April 15 demonstration. Gimmler made it clear that the march was not "a pat on the back for President Johnson." He declared: "Peace is not the is sue. Every sane man is for peace. The idea is just to back our fighting...
...merger of Vassar and Yale announced last Fall did not prompt the new program, the presidents said. According to Miss Adams, she and Johnson met socially last fall and discovered similar problems as new presidents of their respective schools. They continued talking shop since then, she said, and the idea for the joint plan came form a sort of spontaneous combustion...
Since then, the Supreme Court has sustained Johnsonian opinions all the way. After Baker gave U.S. courts power over state voting districts, Alabama tried to base apportionment of the legislature's upper house on geography rather than population. A three-judge court including Johnson voided that idea in Reynolds v. Sims (1962), which produced the first court order for reapportionment in U.S. history. After that, Alabama tried to bar Negro legislators by combining white and Negro counties. In voiding that scheme in Sims v. Baggett (1965), the judges reapportioned the legislature themselves-another national first...
...that when they tilted the rotor to change direction, the whirling blades would tumble their machines like a gyroscope gone berserk. Ever since, helicopter makers have sacrificed simplicity and speed by using flexible rotor blades mounted on heavy, complex hinges. Lockheed picked up the all-but-forgotten rigid-rotor idea in 1957-and found a way to handle it: the pilot's stick tilts only a small control rotor mounted above the main one. That, in turn, gyroscopically swings the aircraft to any desired attitude almost instantly...
...Investors. The basic idea is to lure both foreign and domestic capital investment. To outsiders, Taiwan's biggest advantage is inexpensive labor. Minimum-wage laws require only $11 a month for unskilled labor, while skilled workers get up to $70 or $80. The rates are only one-third as high as wage levels in Japan and half those in Hong Kong. As a result, several Asian companies have moved operations from those areas to Taiwan. U.S. firms have invested $110 million in Taiwan enterprises. Union Carbide is building an $8,300,000 plastics plant in the Kaohsiung petrochemical complex...