Word: radius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stop in one of 3000-plus neighborhood churches some Sunday, and feel the Mad. Ave. tempo melt away. New York is the town where a barber, when you ask for a shave, will tell you that you need a haircut; where a million people dwell within a 3-block radius--smaller than a midwestern village, yet containing all commodities (drugstore, bar, movie, etc.) necessary for life. Some get the jitters, or get lost, one block beyond that circumscribed universe. Others never leave...
...late 1960's or early 1970's, he believes that the Chinese will have perfected a medium range missle with a radius of about 1000 miles. Halperin, who is finishing a book, China and the Bomb, does not believe that the Red Chinese will possess significant intercontinental capabilities for another 10 to 15 years...
...Banda's order the leader of the rebels, ex-Education Minister Henry Masauko Chipembere, was restricted to a four-mile radius around his home in Malindi. Four other rebel ministers have reportedly fled the country. To rally his divided nation behind him, Banda set off on a whistle-stop campaign. In a speech at Lilongwe, 130 miles northwest of Zomba, Banda declared that he would neither resign nor die to please the rebels. "I am a man of God," Banda cried. "The God of the Christians and the Moslems is going to protect me, and I am going...
...Signal Corpsmen installed a hot line direct to Lyndon. Key Johnson aides carried electronic devices in their pockets that buzzed whenever there was a call from the boss-and there was a lot of buzzing. The contraptions were supposed to work only above ground and within a five-mile radius of the Pageant switchboard. But they were underrated: one White House staffer was in a basement barroom, enjoying a supposedly safe, subterranean snort, when his pocket buzzer suddenly went wild. Texas' Governor John Connally was a good 15 miles out of town when the same thing happened...
...tumult and the clamor have been going on ever since Tokyo began rebuilding the wreckage of World War II. But the phons intensified as the Olympics neared. The problem was the low-slung nature of Tokyo itself: a megalopolis covering a radius of about 65 miles, with sidewalkless streets barely broad enough for two rickshas to pass cautiously, most of them lined with open-fronted shoe stores, rice stores, restaurants, confectionaries, raw-fish shops...