Word: impetuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Also, some defense officials felt that in the missile age, manned bombers were unnecessary. With Clark Clifford's arrival in the Pentagon, attitudes changed. The new Secretary of Defense was "inclined" to agree that there is a need for the new bomber, and with that, AMSA gained new impetus. Already, $120 million has been spent for advanced research and development. However, under the terms of last week's agreement, the Air Force cannot go ahead with full development and procurement. First, there will be a design competition that will last at least two years and cost several hundred...
...work real change requires two things, according to Goodwin. First, we must recruit leadership whose idealism is convincing. A sense of restored national purpose, as in the Kennedy years, would provide the impetus for broader control of industrial and technological growth. (Idealism will be scarce so long as American foreign policy is blundering and violent...
Much of the impetus comes from the exotic costumes dreamed up by youth, and the watchword is "Do your own thing." The situation has traditional designers up tight. Old standard setters, like Balenciaga, have retired. Others, like Saint Laurent, reach for youth by focusing increasingly on less expensive ready-to-wear clothes. At 46, fatigued by the efforts that have kept him far ahead of other designers, Rudi Gernreich last week announced that he was taking a year off in order to refresh himself. Says Gernreich, who championed the new attitude all along: "I feel that a woman must...
...local ordinance limited buildings to a height of 150 feet or 13 stories, whichever was lower. The results of improved structural-testing techniques finally persuaded the city engineers that skyscrapers would be safe. With the ceiling abolished, the city's skyline slowly began to rise. The major impetus was supplied by the completion of a network of freeways during the '60s. They not only converge on the core of the city but form an irregular loop around it, making driving downtown comparatively easy. Most of the new skyscrapers have sprung up along the sector of the freeway loop...
...Luis Sert, in 1956. Both the studio and the 13-room, 200-year-old stone farmhouse behind it which serves Miró as an annex, are crammed with his new paintings and sculptures. Among them stand the found objects that furnish at once a touchstone to reality and the impetus to further dreams: a child's toy ladybug, a rock with an owl's face drawn on it, the skeleton of a bat, the mummified body of a cat, a twisted wagon tongue, a piece of the rudder of a fishing boat...