Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coup attempt in Egypt or Syria, a blockade thrown against Israel for Egypt, a pro-Soviet political upheaval in Albania, a Soviet power play against Yugoslavia-all are situations in which the Soviets could use their new seapower with unpredictable results. Some Western strategists worry that the friendly neighborhood presence of Russian ships may tempt the Arabs to take foolish chances soon against Israel, in the belief that the Russians would rush to their aid if Israel lashed back in force...
...reduces the need for highly paid (up to $7.30 an hour) building craftsmen at the site. When Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley started flexing his political muscles, however, the unions agreed not only to erect factory-fabricated units, which had long been excluded from Chicago, but to hire neighborhood residents (most of them Negroes) as apprentices on such work...
...hoped that the crowds which gathered to watch the filming of The Boston Strangler don't bother to go down and see the finished product. They could get just about the same thing--leering headlines and all--by buying a copy of the National Enquirer at their neighborhood newstand...
None of Woroner's programs, of course, are going to solve any arguments at the neighborhood saloon or barbershop. Indeed, each week as boxers are eliminated in Woroner's alltime tournament, he is besieged with irate letters from fans accusing the computer of taking a dive. If the trend toward computerized sports continues, the day may come when barber-chair sportsmen will be arguing: "Oh yeah? Digit for digit, the NCR 315 can fold, staple and mutilate...
Gardner is constantly on the lookout for new uses of the data already in the computers' memory drums. A service called Gasoline Profit Index, for example, helps oil companies find locations for service stations by providing a block-by-block profile of any neighborhood in any U.S. city: how many cars are owned there, what makes and vintage, by men or women, of what age. Since Cadillacs use more gasoline than Falcons, and eight-cylinder engines more than six-cylinders, since women do not drive as much as men, it is possible to estimate down to the number...