Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout the congressional recess and his own convalescence, Lyndon Johnson remained serenely aloof from partisan politics. When he returned to the ring last week, the President showed that he had lost none of his old élan for upstaging the opposition. Waiting until only a few hours before the G.O.P.'s Ev Dirksen and Gerry Ford were to take to TV with their "little State of the Union" message, Johnson summoned the White House press to witness a series of top-of-the-bill turns deftly calculated to steal front-page space from the Republicans...
...Khrushchevite revisionists are actively trying to isolate People's China and surround it with a ring of fire." The voice last week was Peking's, speaking through its puppet state of Albania, and it had a distinctly claustrophobic edge to it. No doubt about it, Red China was beginning to sit up and take notice of the mounting Soviet diplomatic campaign to grab a bigger role in Asia (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week, with Kremlin Troubleshooter Aleksandr Shelepin back from North Viet Nam, and Moscow looking good after its mediating efforts in the Pakistani-Indian accord at Tashkent...
Direct Nuclear Hit. Little is left to human error. Should no one notice a major development, or should a number of seemingly unrelated minor developments signify trouble, electronic brains set off flashing lights, ring bells, and sound other assorted alarms. On one switch box where alarms are manually triggered, a NORAD operator has already taped a crude sign: "Don't push buttons. It makes a real offensive noise...
...bright exception. Often in far-reaching opinions by Traynor, the California court has been among the first to modernize the legal definition of criminal insanity (1953), to hold that an indigent whose court-appointed lawyer has botched his job is entitled to a new trial (1963), to ring new safeguards around the use of co-defendant confessions at joint trials (1965), and to defy the odd Supreme Court rule that police may not seize "mere" evidence, such as incriminating letters, unless it is also the loot or tools of a crime, or the means of escape...
...industry is even going under water to find new sales. Evinrude recently introduced the $279 Aquanaut, a gasoline engine that floats in its own air-filled life ring, pumps compressed, filtered air through two 25-ft. hoses down to masks worn by aquanauts below. Not only does it free the serious diver from cumbersome, expensive scuba tanks but, plopped over the side of a boat, it lets the yachtsman get to the bottom of any problem he might have-even if it's only barnacles...