Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humphrey's options, in any event, are many. Others in the departing Administration will find it harder to remain near the center of power, and some, who have served ever since John Kennedy took office eight years ago, have no desire to do so. Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, one of J.F.K.'s first appointees, announced even before the election that he would resign to head Washington's EDP Technology International Inc., a firm which uses computer technology to solve client countries' sociological and military problems. Wilbur Cohen, who joined the Kennedy Administration as an Assistant...
...long service and such distinguished accomplishments as gaining commonwealth status and strengthening the island economy with his much-publicized Operation Bootstrap, had finally become a liability. Said one: "The future of the P.D.P. rests in what we do with Muñ0z. If in 1972 he has the same power he enjoys now, we're washed up." Since Muñoz can be expected to hang on to whatever power he can as president of the island's Senate, the P.D.P. could be heading for extinction...
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will show the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second...
...recent years. Only the prospect of universal nuclear destruction is viewed with more horrified relish by pessimistic social prophets than the prospect of man's inability to feed an unchecked population. The latest authority to update the Malthusian theory is British Novelist C. P. Snow (The Corridors of Power, The Two Cultures), who is celebrated for his observations on the disparity between the worlds of science and the humanities. Lord Snow issued his warning last week as he delivered the John Findlay Green lecture at Westminster College, Fulton, Mo. (where Winston Churchill made his classic "iron curtain" speech...
...situation that now faced the alliance was bluntly put by NATO Supreme Commander Lyman Lemnitzer, who had doubted détente and disapproved of the military dilution of NATO all along. The ten Soviet divisions that Russia has moved permanently into Czechoslovakia have "significantly altered" the balance of power in Europe, he said. He urged the allies to put their forces in a greater state of readiness, to bolster their reserve units and revamp their mobilization plans...