Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Johnson described the truncated housing bill that came out of the House last week as "an important new milestone" toward racial justice. In a sense, that is so. Even though the measure is far less stringent than many state laws, a federal law naturally has far more impact. Nevertheless, the bill is at best a modest milestone, a halting start toward ending what Housing and Urban Development Secretary Robert C. Weaver rightly calls the "most stubborn and universal of the Negro's disadvantages...
...letters to the editor" page could be turned into a forum for ideas which are rarely reported or debated in the press, but which probably carry a greater impact than many of the front page stories. Instead of vital debate on important issues these pages are filled with the prose of complaining extremists. Another way of turning the press into an educational core would be to open to reporters the mountains of unclassified information which pours into Washington every day, but which is stamped with the forbidding seal of "U.S. Government Property." If such sources were available and used...
...from the classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne. Director Bryan Forbes (King Rat) reveals an unexpected gift for utter nonsense, using every period cliché and corny camera trick that might imaginably be fermented into vintage black comedy. Some of the gags crumble on impact, others are stretched out like taffy, but there is enough fun left over to leave most moviegoers happily wallowing in greed, sex, homicide, body snatching and other nefarious diversions...
...Chick's Heartbeat. NASA Consultant Quentin L. Hartwig reported a fascinating example of the application of space research to earth-bound medicine. To record the impact of a speck of interplanetary dust on a man or vehicle in space, Engineer Vernon Rogallo devised an instrument so sensitive that it registered the force of a single grain of salt dropped less than one-half of an inch. Then, at the NASA Ames research center in California, Rogallo overheard a cafeteria conversation between two biologists: How could they record the heartbeat of a six-day-old chick embryo without piercing...
...Moscow, Leningrad and Alma-Ata, rerouting him to the industrial city of Krasnodar (pop. 312,000) and the Black Sea resorts of Batumi (82,000) and Sukhumi (70,000). The State Department protested the "arbitrary changes," but the Soviets, obviously afraid that Fatha would have too big an impact in the great cities, were adamant. They may have outsmarted themselves, because Batumi and Sukhumi at this time of year are often jumping-like the east coast of Florida in January...