Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your urine while you're being shot at.' " As it happened, all Viet Cong attacks were aborted before they could reach the camp. But that made no difference to the Bourne study. The men were under relentless cyclic stress, which reached a peak every evening with the prospect of a night attack. One day when intelligence said that an attack was expected, 30% of the G.I.s developed "the G.I.s"-diarrhea. But all, like the medics, showed normal or subnormal levels of stress hormones...
...able to buy an adjoining 12,990 acres (at $73 an acre) from the state of Arizona, he had to convince state officials that his plan would increase tax revenues. To create 25-sq.-mi. Havasu City, he gambled $500,000 on surveys, plans and engineering, even though the prospect looked so risky that C. V. Wood, 46, onetime Disneyland general manager and Convair chief industrial engineer, who is now Havasu City's master planner, told him bluntly: "You're out of your mind...
...most important facts of life in a communist country. One need only read the continuing complaints of the regimes in the party presses to become aware of this. This condition is a direct consequence of the environment imposed on these groups by the parties, an environment through which little prospect is seen of fulfilling individual interests. It had led to a response by these groups to their environment which has a distinctly political character...
...prospect of a critique of Economics 1 by the Harvard-Radcliffe Young People's Socialist League was a bit startling both to those who run the course and those who take it. The eight-page document, released last month, was an anti-climax. Though well-researched and well-written, it blunted the edge of its militancy with too much scholarly prose, and too little focus on how the course should change...
Youthful protest over Viet Nam has ranged from mobbing Cabinet officers to burning draft cards. Yet for many young Americans who are profoundly repelled by the prospect of fighting the war, the alternative has been to serve the cause of peace in Viet Nam. That, at least, is the philosophy followed by the 250 members of International Voluntary Services (I.V.S.), a private Peace Corps whose members-including many unabashed Vietniks-are among the most dedicated workers for social and economic progress in that unhappy land...