Word: shaped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...changing Europe that is eager for visions. The postwar period has ended; old alliances are shifting. Western Europe is gripped by a sudden fascination with building bridges to Eastern Europe. For the first time since World War II, Europe feels that it has the strength and stature to shape its own destiny. So far, the most insistent influence on that destiny has been Charles de Gaulle, who wants an inward-looking Europe of independent yet friendly fatherlands extending from the Channel to the Urals-and free from U.S. influence...
Ever since Landlord Charles de Gaulle evicted NATO from France, General Lyman Lemnitzer, 67, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, has been househunting in the neighborhood of the new SHAPE headquarters now abuilding in Belgium. At last he settled on the Chateau Gendebien near the town of Mons. The chateau sits in a pleasant 30-acre parkland populated by pheasants and wild rabbits. Unfortunately, the house is pretty much in a state of nature, too. No one has lived there since 1959; five years ago, three vandals broke in and tore the place apart, smashing windows and yanking down chandeliers...
Designing a faster twelve-meter America's Cup yacht is a little like trying to improve on a perfect circle. The twelve-meter formula is so old and so restrictive that reports of "major breakthroughs" in design usually turn out to involve a new shape for the transom, say, or a mast that is stepped an inch fore or aft of usual. But Warwick Hood, the Down Under architect who designed Australia's new America's Cup challenger Dame Pattie, insists that he actually has hit on something new. And maybe...
Coach Bill McCurdy's squad dumped its opening meet to Army and then massacred Boston University, Boston College, and Northeastern. At West Point very few runners were in top shape and the field men (with the exception of Ron Wilson) were sluggish...
...case will be presented to private welfare foundations, to corporations with a known concern for science, and also to alumni and to other individuals. The task of securing the funds for this ambitious program will require careful organization and a sustained effort which is only now beginning to take shape...