Word: japanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Overhead, the big, slow EC-121s still fly the Sea of Japan, listening in on Communist electronic transmissions. Though the four-engine prop planes are now protected by U.S. jets based in South Korea, the North Koreans could shoot down another EC-121 any time they wished. The spy flights come within 4½ minutes' flying time of North Korean air bases, which could scramble more than enough MIGS to down the F-4 and F106 jets that are used to escort the spy planes. Protecting the AGERS seems equally futile. Despite contingency plans designed to rescue...
...Frontier is now widely regarded as corruption and betrayal. Under John Kennedy and on into the Johnson Administration, the intellectual seemed ubiquitous -moving back and forth among the universities, government, business and industry. Harvard's Edwin O. Reischauer and John Kenneth Galbraith were dispatched as ambassadors to Japan and India. "Pragmatic" intellectuals like Economist Walt Rostow and the Bundy brothers, McGeorge and William, helped to formulate the war's policies and rationale. As they did so, the schism in the intellectual community widened...
...head of pediatrics at Montreal's McGill University, said that the application of knowledge that is now available would reduce the infant-mortality rate in America by 50%. That would give the U.S. the lowest rate of any major nation. It now ranks 14th, behind New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Scandinavia and most other countries of Western Europe...
Among the most mysterious of all cancers is the one that afflicts the stomach. Why is it especially common in countries as far apart and as different as Japan, Finland and Chile? Why is it so rare in most of the U.S., and particularly in the Southern states-except among Negroes? Why, in all countries, is the disease associated with poverty...
...company does more than three-quarters of its business. VW is also being tail-gated by hustling Japanese automakers. Last year, Japanese competition in Australia forced VW to close down assembly lines that had once produced more than 20,000 beetles a year; the equipment now assembles cars for Japan's Nissan Motor...