Word: safes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Those who wrote that your picture of the dead soldier was tasteless [June 18] should realize that war and the battlefield have no regard for fine manners and decorum. "Good taste" is only for those who are safe and snug before their fires, trying desperately to shut out the world...
ENGINEERS now have something less than two years in which to accomplish one of the most intricate and delicate moving jobs in history-the removal to safe high ground of the fabled 3,000-year-old Temples of Abu Simbel on Egypt's Upper Nile (TIME, Nov. 23, 1959, et seq.). When the High Dam at Aswan is completed, the backed-up Nile waters will have inundated the present site of the temples. Last week an exhibition depicting this vast rescue operation opened in the Exhibition Center of the TIME & LIFE Building in Manhattan, the first place...
After giving Hollywood a whole series of Armageddon operas-On the Beach, Dr. Strangelove, Fail Safe-fiction's doom boom has worn pretty thin. But not too thin for Welshman Peter George, 41, who co-authored the Strangelove script and wrote the novel, Red Alert, on which it was based. In Commander-1, he uses the familiar formula-headline-fresh immediacy wrapped around a minute kernel of plausibility. Red China, newly armed with a few primitive but potent nuclear bombs, decides to eliminate both Russia and the U.S. by convincing each that the other has launched...
...What do you think about . . .?" And dozens of times each day Bundy, in talking to others, utters the most galvanizing words in U.S. Government: "The President wants . . ." During the first days of the Dominican crisis, President Johnson, by his own count, talked to Bundy 86 times. It is probably safe to say that after each talk, Bundy passed the word to some high-ranking official that "The President wants...
Brainstorm begins with a small, safe idea, carefully contrived to spur concern for the right people. Driving home from work one night, a sober young research analyst (Jeff Hunter) comes upon a locked limousine stalled on the railroad tracks, with an irresistible blonde (Anne Francis) asleep inside. Of course, he saves her from an approaching train. Of course, she upbraids him for spoiling her attempted suicide, and of course she turns out to be the wife of his employer (Dana Andrews), the ruthless tycoon who heads Benson Industries...