Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fooled Once. Seat-belt makers got fooled once before, when Ford in the mid-50s began promoting seat belts, then had to give them up when the public did not respond. But this time they are convinced that the belts will hold on. Six states and the District of Columbia have already passed laws to make seat belts mandatory, and 30 more states have similar bills pending. Every auto company now offers them as optional equipment (priced from $16.80 on a Ford to $21.50 on a Cadillac). By 1965, the industry figures that seat belts will be standard equipment...
Denise Levertov is probably the best young poet in America today. She strives for technical mastery; she tries to make her poetry musical, she perceives the minute and the macrocosmic aspects of our lives. She makes us aware and she makes us respond...
Director Phil Stotter and his generally competent cast struggled long and hard to make a success of things, and, in Jean Genet's terms, I suppose they did. But Genet's terms exclude most of what you and I respond to in the theater. The Balcony has no story in the normal sense and no real motivation for its characters. It does have a gimmick, a wonderful gimmick that Genet uses again and again, like a ritual. He leads us on an aimless trek down a hall of mirrors...
...McNamara, such a "balance of terror" should constitute a "mutual deterrent" against war. Even if nuclear war were to explode, McNamara has a theory that it might be limited. To achieve this, he would in effect hold Soviet cities as hostages. That is, he would have the U.S. first respond to attack by striking only at Soviet missile sites and military installations; he would then serve an ultimatum to the enemy to quit shooting or suffer destruction of its cities...
...shift in strategic thinking under McNamara boils down to an increased flexibility in how the U.S. might respond to whatever an enemy does. From nuclear warfare down to a jungle skirmish, it provides for McNamara's insistence upon "options." Under Eisenhower, the basic reliance was upon total nuclear retaliation...