Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roosevelt, said Groves, was deter mined to prevent a military stalemate in Europe. On Dec. 30, 1944, as the Allied offensive bogged down in the Battle of the Bulge, Groves and War Secretary Henry L. Stimson went to the White House to brief F.D.R. about the progress of the nuclear program...
...Indonesia, where confusion is a way of life, and President Sukarno is the greatest obfuscator of. them all. Still unresolved last week was whether the six generals were martyrs slain by Communist-supported plotters or whether they had been killed by Lieut. Colonel Untung and his palace guards to prevent their launching a coup of their...
Along Fifth Avenue, where hundreds of thousands of spectators were expected, store windows were boarded up to prevent breakage. All week bomb experts sifted through every nook and cranny of the places that Pope Paul would enter: the U.N. building, St. Patrick's Cathedral; Yankee Stadium, where he would celebrate a Mass of Peace; the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where he would meet with President Johnson; the Vatican Pavilion at the World's Fair. A heavy guard including cops and priests was set up at key points a full day before his appearance...
...hers" shifting: automatic transmission for women who want simple convenience, plus a stick shift for men who like the feeling of control it gives them. Some Plymouths have reading lights over the rear seat. Others have a redesigned door that is difficult to open in order to prevent accidental fallouts. Practically all of the cars offer more powerful engines this year. Lincoln increased the size of its engine from 430 cu. in. to 462 cu. in., the industry's largest...
...academic specialties, educational technology, professional practice, and the living problems of school and community. Such confrontations constitute the major channel through which university research and scholarship are linked with the practical enterprises of men. To destroy this channel would, no doubt, result in economies; it would also, however, surely prevent the university from a proper fulfillment of its responsibilities...