Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam effort. Last week, in his first public address since he joined the Cabinet, Clifford sounded sanguine enough. "We concluded," he told the annual Associated Press luncheon in Manhattan, "that the increased effectiveness of the South Vietnamese government and its fighting forces will now permit us to level off our effort-and in due time to begin the gradual process of reduction...
...adjustable wings retracted into attack position, a camouflage-mottled F-111, nee the TFX, last week was highballing across Thailand at treetop level on its way to a bombing mission in North Viet Nam's panhandle. Suddenly, something went wrong, and the U.S.'s most advanced warplane crashed somewhere in the dense jungle of Thailand or western Laos. It was the third F-111 crash since a squadron of six of the $6,000,000 swing-wings made their combat debut in Viet Nam less than a month...
...Evening Post. One course of action he has discussed with Curtis is discontinuing the magazine; another possibility is removing it from competition with LIFE and Look and aiming it at a less urban, less sophisticated audience. Its present 6,800,000 circulation could then fall to a more comfortable level. With the Post problem settled, Curtis' outlook would brighten markedly. The company's other major magazines-Ladies' Home Journal, Holiday, American Home and Jack and Jill-are in much healthier condition...
...Albright-Knox Gallery (TIME, March 15), included five abstract environments. Drollest among them was the Pneumatic Garden of Eden, created by M.I.T.'s Otto Piene, in which huge, air-filled plastic tubes waved in the air like undersea coral growths in a darkened room lit at shin level by slowly flashing lights. Delicately disturbing was Lucas Samaras' Mirrored Room No. 2, part of the Albright's permanent collection. The room (see overleaf) was plated with mirrors on the walls, floor and ceiling. Looking up, festivalgoers could see themselves, standing on their heads a thousand times; looking down...
Walt Disney died on Dec. 15, 1966, at the age of 65; yet it is difficult to think of him as being dead. Much of this has to do with the ubiquitous enterprises that, under Brother Roy Disney, continue to spread the name.* On a more disturbing level, however, it is difficult to accept the fact of Disney's death because it was difficult to accept the facts of his life. Even his surname, said to have been traced to a Burgundian soldier named De Disney who followed William the Conqueror to England in 1066, seems a fanciful invention...