Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Balance of Power. Domestically, the Great Society is certain to figure as a major issue, and it is by no means certain to win votes for Lyndon Johnson. "There is not such massive impact in the programs-at least not that much redounding to the benefit of the Democrats," says former Census Bureau Director Richard Scammon, an astute political observer. "If there were, the Democrats would have won in 1966 without losing a seat...
...walk-on took only four minutes, but its Orwellian impact unsettled even hard-boiled Communist newsmen. Through a curtained doorway in Hanoi marched a husky American prisoner of war clad in purple and cream striped pajamas. He looked healthy enough, except for his eyes; as the strobe lights winked, they remained as fixed and flat as blazer buttons. Then, at a word from his captors, the American bowed deeply from the waist like a Manchurian candi date, repeating the abject gesture in all directions about a dozen times. At an other command, he turned on his sandaled heel and marched...
...ingenious rope could be used underwater to aid aquanauts. Average citizens might well want a version to moor a boat or tow a car, the idea in both cases being to keep things apart as well as together. And Dr. Marton thinks his brainchild might make a big public impact from whence it sprang-as a toy. Flung out loose and then frozen, it makes a marvelously accurate lasso as well as tripper-upper and grabber-onto of things it wraps around. His two children have already demolished two of his homemade versions...
...hunting to J.F.K.'s "haunting" recollection of shooting a deer on L.B.J.'s ranch in 1960. The incident, which makes Johnson seem a heartless killer while Kennedy gets "an inner scar" from shooting a deer, is still in the book, but has considerably less anti-Lyndon impact than if it had launched the entire epic. It tends to cast Johnson as a man accustomed to brutality-a gruesome and singularly unjust characterization that makes L.B.J.'s love of hunting appear to be a crude symbol of acquiescence to murder...
...pill," as oral contraceptives are now universally known, may well have as great an impact on the health of billions of people yet unborn as did the work of Pasteur in revealing the mechanism of infections, or of Lister in preventing them. For if the pill can defuse the population explosion, it will go far toward eliminating hunger, want and ignorance. So far, it has reached only a tiny fraction of the world's 700 million women of childbearing age, but its potential is clear from U.S. experience. Of the 39 million American women capable of motherhood...