Word: pointed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Time and again, military briefers in Viet Nam have "proved" that the war was being won with the help of impressive "body counts" of enemy dead that were impossible to verify, let alone dispute. With the aid of computers, U.S. officials were equally sanguine about stating to the decimal point how many villages were "secure" in Viet Nam. Such was the faith in the quantity of weaponry unloaded on the Communists that military briefers would confidently announce in detail the damage that had been done, when in fact they had no way of knowing for sure. Passed on to higher...
According to a book published this week, The Selling of the President 1968 (Trident Press; $5.95), it was simply a case of good advertising. Author Joe McGinniss, 26, a former Philadelphia newspaperman, followed Nixon's electronic campaign for about six months. He makes the point that the candidate of 1968 was not all that different from the candidate of 1960. The difference was that in 1968 the man the public saw was the man the Nixon men wanted people to see: a television Nixon who was casual, relaxed, warm, concerned, and-above all-sincere...
...never make representations of bodies but of things that relate to bodies so that the body sensation is passed along to the spectator either literally or by suggestion." Finally, his creations must have something to do with sex. "If you ignore that," he says, "you're missing the point...
...when we were discussing the B-52 matter -the decision to delay flights of the B-52s for a period of 36 hours-that it related to the fact that the decision, when it was made, related to a period of 36 hours, and there was not a decision point after the decision to delay the flights for 36 hours to again order the resumption...
...airlines or their passengers are happy with the tangled fare structure on North Atlantic routes. Travelers can be charged any one of more than 100 different fares to fly to the same city-depending upon their age and occupation, the starting point, the time of day or any one of a myriad other factors. Basic round-trip fares from New York to Rome, for example, range between $250 for special groups and $573 for twelvemonth economy. "When you put our present fares through a computer, they come out snarled like spaghetti," says Fabrizio Serena di Lapigio, the marketing director...