Word: scoping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your article on "Remaking the American City" was an outstanding example of TIME'S unique ability to handle a complex in-depth story. Both its scope and depth are a tribute to the team you assigned to prepare the article. I feel sure, however, that you will forgive us for expressing some concern over the omission of the name, the Plaza, in your description of the marble-faced circular apartment building under construction on Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway. It would be like our referring to your new home as "the top floors of a new building...
...sentry nervously stares at the ink-dark night. Among the rustlings of leaves and insects he hears a harder, hostile sound. He raises his rifle and presses an eye to a rubber cup at the end of a tubular scope. Now blackness turns into an eerie green glow; the sentry can see trees, bushes, rocks. If an enemy patrol is creeping toward him, he can spot the moving figures with surprising ease...
...such scenes have been acted out only in practice, but the Army's new night-seeing scope is proving so practical that it soon will be made in quantity for troops in the field. And once on active duty, the new sighting devices should prove to be a marked advance over the famed snooperscopes that were so useful in World War II. The trouble with the snooperscopes was that they needed their own light source -a searchlight that illuminated targets with an infra-red beam. That was invisible to the naked eye but could easily be seen...
...activities of these advisers are more or less coordinated through the President's Council of Economic Advisers, but they range far beyond the usual scope of the CEA. Walter Heller, author of the tax cut and the most influential chairman in the CEA's history, is expected to resign soon and return to the University of Minnesota, though the President is eager to keep him on. Heller's replacement could well be Michigan's Gardner Ackley, 49, a somewhat quieter but equally activist CEA member. Whoever heads the CEA, the band of outside economic advisers...
Students in the group will study India on a very "broad and sophisticated level." While the Rudolphs' course, Gov 119, had concentrated only on the governmental structure of India, Taub explained that the scope of the Winthrop seminar may even include Indian...