Word: paper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...atmosphere would be even more disastrous, Lapp calculates. The detonation of a ten-megaton ICBM by an intercepting Sprint at an altitude of 50,000 feet would produce second-degree skin burns in people over an area as large as 2,000 sq. mi. and cause dry paper to ignite over an area...
...government's pretensions to sovereignty in the cities, the fraud of our Government's claims of imminent victory, and the basic untenability of the American military position." The more hawkish Houston Post took a different view of the attacks. "Except for the loss of life," said the paper, "the raids would have had a comic book character. They were reminiscent of the raids upon the American naval vessels by Japanese kamikaze pilots during World War II. One is almost forced to the conclusion that the men in Ha noi and their backers are motivated by an overwhelming compulsion...
...replace Wicker with Assistant Managing Editor Harrison Salisbury, only to have National Political Correspondent David Broder resign. Broder accused New York of "a parochialism of outlook," "faulty and sometimes bizarre judgments," "endless bureaucratic frustrations in the New York office." The Salisbury idea was dropped-temporarily. Eight months ago, the paper hired James Greenfield, a former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (and onetime TIME correspondent) who had resigned in 1966 as an assistant vice president of Continental Airlines. Greenfield was promised a "major job," and in due course Managing Editor Daniel and Assistant Managing Editor Rosenthal, backed by Publisher...
That "bureau thing" was, in one sense, only another office battle about careers and advancement. But it also had far wider implications about how the Times is run and by whom. The paper has more editorial direction than most of the nation's dailies. Even so, it often appears to be a kind of symposium of independent correspondents. The Times's trio of top editors-Turner Catledge, Clifton Daniel and A. M. Rosenthal-have long wanted to assert more authority and central purpose, notably in regard to the Washington bureau...
After intense effort, the cryptanalysts arrived at a good pencil-and-paper analogue of the Purple Code. That was only the beginning. From there they went on to construct their own model of Japan's encoding machine, which "spewed sparks and made loud whirring noises," but worked...