Word: maze
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Railway Express Agency and its rum bling green trucks have been rolling toward a dead end. Jointly owned by 58 railroads, the sprawling company has been plagued by inefficiency and red tape. The main reason: its ties to railroads impose on it the same night marish maze of regulations that the Interstate Commerce Commission ap plies to REA's parents. Without special ICC permission, REA cannot haul goods from city to city by truck; instead it must put the goods on a train - no mat ter how bad the connection - and ar range pickup and delivery at the other...
Faced with a Kafkaesque maze of shifting restrictions and all-powerful bureaucracies, the nation's 8,000,000 welfare recipients have tended to become what Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas calls "constitutional nonpersons." Since the 1935 Social Security Act established the U.S. welfare system, federal officials, state agencies, municipal departments and even individual welfare workers have set up a profusion of separate standards as to who should and should...
Then, too, everyone-except Jim Garrison-could see the case closing in on the 6-ft. 6-in. district attorney. The press and TV continued to dismantle his imagined maze of Machiavellianism: secret codes that supposedly led to Ruby's telephone number, the elusive and probably fictional "Clay Bertrand," the Cuban intrigue. In New Orleans, where the ambitious D.A. is widely feared and conspiratorial theories are as highly relished as crayfish bisque, the Crime Commission demanded a sweeping state inquiry into Garrison's office...
...analogously, that the orchestral conductor superseded the head-bobbing harpsichordist or violin list. Is the indulging of theatrical egotism and arrogance worth a return to the old-time lack of focus, balance, and precision? Both Sir Laurence and Saint Cyril should attend to wending their ways by mending their maze...
...part of a vast, largely secret U.S., Vietnamese and Royal Laotian effort to detect, deter and destroy the primary funnel through which North Vietnamese men and materiel head for South Viet Nam. The Ho Chi Minh trail, a 200-mile "logistical wonder" according to U.S. officials, is a massive maze of roads, bridges, waterways and paths complete with primitive motels. In recent months its roads have been paved with crushed stone or topped with pressed laterite. Camouflages of bamboo and branch roof it over where the jungle canopy is balding. Bridges are often built 6 inches under water so that...