Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...partly to protect that record that O'Brien is now laboring for Humphrey's election. "If we fail," he says, "it will signal a slowdown in the nation, an unwinding of what we have done...
Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford inaugurated the new stance by directing that the $5.5 billion Sentinel anti-ballistic-missile program be exempt from any of the budget cuts dictated by Congress this year. Though the ABM system is primarily designed to protect the U.S. against Chinese ICBMs, which are now said to be at least a year behind schedule, Clifford insisted that "current developments" force the U.S. to "press forward as planned with the Sentinel system." Opponents fear that this may even mean the eventual revival of the once-proposed (and rejected) larger ABM shield directed against Soviet missiles...
...most ironic fate of all befell Brillo-bearded Jerry Rubin, 30, a former Berkeley free-speecher and now a yippie leader. To protect himself from police strong-arm tactics, Rubin hired a husky, sledge-fisted Chicagoan known as "Big Bob Lavin," whose beard and bellicosity were matched by his ability at bottle-throwing in confrontations with the cops. Big Bob was gassed by the police, fought them valiantly, but was finally clubbed into submission-carrying with him into jail Rubin's tactical diary. Only then was it revealed that Big Bob was really an undercover cop, Robert Pierson...
...such shifts become more common, many companies are taking extra pains to keep their executives happy. To protect its executives from high taxes on immediate income, U.S. Plywood-Champion Papers, for one, has taken to offering them deferred compensation. One of the best at holding onto its executives is General Motors, which is forever shifting them into new jobs. But not even the best can avoid losing an occasional man, as evidenced when Executive Vice President Semon E. ("Bunky") Knudsen, passed over for G.M.'s presidency, quit last winter to become president of Ford Motor...
...country had to be considered and appeased, the resulting agreements apparently proved too rigid to cope with bumper crops everywhere. The accords forbid selling surplus produce within the market and call, instead, for destruction of perishable crops when prices sink to a fixed minimum level. The purpose was to protect the farmer by assuring him a reasonable income...