Word: lessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...missile-site radar): a less powerful device than PAR, but one that provides refined, close-in surveillance of targets. MSR would direct the firing of Sprints and Spartans...
...only clear-cut aspect of the conspiracy case against retired New Orleans Businessman Clay Shaw was the verdict. After pumping the case for two years in public and six weeks in the courtroom, District Attorney Jim Garrison got less than an hour of the jury's time in deliberation before they unanimously acquitted Shaw of plotting to kill President Kennedy. A less obsessed prosecutor might have reasoned from those circumstances that the jury believed he had no case. Not Big Jim. Said he: "The jury verdict simply indicates that the American people don't want to hear...
...country has plenty of less famous eccentrics too. Terrified of driving, a Kansas scion solves the problem by packing his Rolls-Royce aboard a railroad flatcar, sitting behind the wheel and riding wherever he pleases. An Oregon sportswriter is so hung up on streetcars that he roams the U.S. to find and ride them. An Arkansas housewife fills her house with flocks of birds that swirl through the rooms; she spends $200 a month to feed them-not to mention the cleaning bills. For ten years, a 52-year-old man named Clint Wescott camped in a weed-choked field...
...highest ratio of any major U.S. city-and the slums have expanded as blacks arrived and whites departed for the suburbs. The flight of middle-class residents and their tax revenues has placed increased demands on municipal services for the poor and made them that much less adequate. Hardest hit is the public-school system, which some real estate agents now frankly warn home buyers to avoid...
...Frail diplomatic links still exist, though neither nation now maintains an ambassador in the other's capital. Party relations have been virtually nonexistent since 1963. Some trade still continues, but a recent Soviet survey reports that current two-way trade, estimated in 1967 to be $106 million, is less than 6% of 1961 levels. Given the steady disintegration of the once solid partnership of the two Communist giants, the frontier clashes-and last week's explosion-became inevitable...