Word: sage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still has 59 squadrons, 1,400 fighters. Among the weapons they carry are infra-red Falcon missiles, heat-seeking Sidewinders, Genie air-to-air rockets, capable of toting nuclear warheads for demolishing enemy bomber formations. The fighters are linked to radar sites by the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment System (SAGE), which guides them straight to their targets, does everything but fire their weapons. ADC also mans six Bomarc surface-to-air missile squadrons in the northeastern U.S.; two Bomarc squadrons in Canada and hundreds of Army Hawk and Nike-Hercules missile batteries in the U.S. are under control...
Intellectual life has become increasingly specialized; as Editor-Critic Irving Kristol remarks, it is no longer easy for the all-purpose sage to dash off a tract on economics or morals without highly specific knowledge. A case in point u Viet Nam. The current swirl of protest may be useful in encouraging the makers of U.S. policy to sharpen and define their views, but it is also heavily uninformed, riddled with emotional cliches and misunderstandings of both Asia and Communism-a throwback to the oversimplicities of the 1930s. Many intellectuals pounced on Viet Nam almost with relief, because it once...
Walter M. Light '67 and Michael R. Sage '68 of the Harvard-Radcliffe Students for a Democratic Society described Laughlin's reaction to the groups' petition as "friendly and cooperative." Laughlin told them that their petition was "the kind of lobbying that is beginning to have an effect in Washington...
Across the street from the Brattle, sharing the floor above Sage's Market with Rizzo Custom Tailors, is an appendage of Harvard which few passers-by would notice, but which draws enthusiastic praise and equally enthusiastic damnations from officials in Washington and from politicians, academics, and journalists around the country...