Word: needed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made its point.Or had it? Said Sim Van Der Ryn, chairman of the chancellor's advisory committee on housing and environment: "The People's Park was a great idea. The university just seems to be mad that they didn't think of it first." Asserting the need for the fence, Heyns admitted: "That's a hard way to make the point, but that's the way it has to be." At week's end, 1,200 National Guardsmen patrolled the streets and the park was closed off and empty. Continued agitation in the area...
...they related the need for more American investment capital, both private and governmental, the end of discriminatory tariffs and of quotas for their exports. They expressed concern over the moribund Alliance for Progress, since 1961 the principal vehicle for U.S. aid to Latin America. Congress cut Alianza funds that Lyndon Johnson had requested from $625 million to a disappointing $336.5 million, and Nixon has publicly criticized the program's performance. At each stop, Latin leaders recited the litany of the region's social problems from illiteracy and overpopulation to the need for agrarian reform...
...changes in solar radiation. Should SPAN report a suspicious-looking flare during the Apollo mission at the same time the satellites signal a corresponding increase in high-energy proton radiation, the astronauts in the vulnerable lunar module would be ordered back to the command module forthwith. They should need no more than four hours-well before the deadly mainstream of protons arrives-to dock with the orbiting command module (whose walls provide protection equal to one-fifth of an inch of lead, more than enough to withstand any anticipated solar outburst). The art of solar forecasting is still so primitive...
...tetanus shot is almost certain to receive yet another booster. This is not necessary, judging from detailed laboratory work by Peebles and others. Men and women, they maintain, retain their immunity against tetanus for twelve or more years after those first four shots in childhood, and certainly should not need a booster more often than every ten years. More frequent revaccinations are not only unnecessary but potentially dangerous, say the doctors, since they may provoke allergic reactions against the toxoid itself...
Life in California freed Nabokov of the need to write in the bathroom. But he needed all his astonishing powers of concentration and creative effort for the challenge now facing him. "It had taken me some 40 years to invent Russia and Western Europe," he wrote of the problem, "and now I was faced by the task of inventing America...