Word: ribbons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sailing Orders. The countdown that will put Polaris on station in the '60s began in 1955. In a broad survey of U.S. military strength for President Eisenhower, a blue-ribbon committee chaired by (then) Massachusetts Institute of Technology President James R. Killian Jr. recommended the construction of a fleet ballistic missile to be fired from a submarine. It was a suggestion that set up as complex a problem as ever faced the combined talents of U.S. science and technology. It called for a missile that could live in water, the earth's atmosphere, space and the re-entry...
...followed this policy of granting rich routes to ailing lines before, hoping to cure their trouble. But it has not always worked. Four years ago, CAB allowed Northeast to join Eastern and National on the blue-ribbon New York-Miami run. For the two lines the route had been profitable, but when Northeast also began flying it, all three lines suffered. National was $1,000,000 in the red during the past nine months...
From 6 a.m. on, the morning air is blue with exhaust fumes and the imprecations of traffic-jammed motorists. A continuous ribbon of new and half-finished apartment houses, new factories, assembly plants and used-car lots flanks the 13-mile road be tween the airport and town. Hotel space is at such a premium that many a visiting industrialist is glad to find a cot in the bathroom of any rooming house. The new boom town: Algiers, a city once chiefly celebrated in romantic French novels for its hauntingly mysterious Casbah and flyspecked poverty...
...cross the Rockies in an ore bucket, cruise the Great Lakes in a sternwheeler, crouch in a bunker at Cape Canaveral and watch the missile gap narrow with a perfect shot every six minutes. On the northern outskirts of New York City (the real one), where big, white-ribbon highways trellis over swampy wastes, Freedomland opens next week. Billed as "the world's largest outdoor entertainment center," it rises out of a former garbage dump, is nothing less than a replica of the continental U.S.A., 833 yds. from parkway to shining parkway, with coconuts in Florida, corn in Iowa...
...safety pins, he draped and hung the material, creating one of the most exciting strapless gowns I've ever seen. For a stole, he and several other hostelers went to the Bois de Boulogne and gathered sacks of green ivy, which they stitched to a latticework of ribbon...