Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems, has seriously attempted to measure the impact of the John F. Kennedy Memorial on Cambridge. When completed in the early '70's, the Library complex will attract thousands of tourists to the City -- that much is known. But equally important for Cambridge, the Library's presence will drastically affect local commercial patterns and push real estate values skyward...
Amplifying Prejudices. As a result of its extraordinary impact, TV news has become a powerful force encouraging social ferment. Early in the civil rights revolution, Negro activists made it perfectly clear that wittingly or unwittingly, the TV cameraman was their ally. Marches were staged and demonstrations timed to get full coverage. By reporting the whole movement, TV added to its momentum. The sight of Bull Connor's dogs attacking Birmingham Negroes served as a catalyst for the conscience of most of the nation...
...Context. The range is virtually unlimited, the impact almost awesome, the promise increasingly impressive. Yet there is general agreement that TV news still falls short of its potential. "It is hard for television newscasting to serve the more mature purposes of journalism," says Harold Fleming, director of the Potomac Institute. "It is hard for TV to give perspective, to put things in context...
...little as 10 million years-a brief interlude in the solar system's 4½-billion-year history-Triton could begin its final plunge toward Neptune's surface. Only one event could prevent the terrible impact, says McCord: a phenomenon that may have occurred before in the solar system. Neptune's gravity could break Triton into little pieces as it draws near, turning the satellite into a set of Saturnlike rings...
...English Ford, have as standard items in their '67s some of the features that their U.S. cousins have-including padded dashboards and emergency flasher lights. The Europeans, too, are offering disc brakes, recessed knobs and fixtures, both front and rear safety-belt anchorages, plus such equipment as impact-absorbing bodies (France's Renault and Britain's Rover 2000) and built-in roll bars (Sweden's Volvo). Nonetheless, to judge from the reactions of the crowds that visited the Paris auto show last week, speed and styling were far more important than safety. Among the new models...