Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seat belts may be all right for adults, but try keeping a squirming five-year-old child buckled up for a long automobile ride. It cannot be done, short of resorting to chloroform. Last week the Ford Motor Co. showed off its answer: a 5-lb. padded plastic body shield called the "Tot Guard." The child sits on a molded seat; then a loosely fitting, one-piece leg-and-body "cast" is placed over him. The seat belt loops around in front to secure the entire apparatus, allowing the child to move around inside his cast but also to stay...
...they will collect. They may insist, as the American Medical Association and other doctors' organizations recommend, on billing the patient directly for whatever charge they judge proper. The patient must then pay the bill, get it receipted, and send it to a contractor (it may be Blue Shield or an insurance company), which is acting as the Government's middleman for the area. When the contractor is satisfied that the claim is legitimate, it refunds the patient 80% of what is locally considered a reasonable fee. If the doctor's bill was for $10 and this...
...Administration had had the option to build no ABM system at all, or to construct either the thin shield, aimed at blunting a strike from Peking, or a "thick" shield, designed to cope with an all-out onslaught from Moscow. As usual, Lyndon Johnson staked out the middle ground, and, as usual, he and McNamara came under crossfire from both flanks...
...would probably be able to strike the U.S. with nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles by the mid-1970s. "It would be insane and suicidal for her to do so, but one can conceive conditions under which China might miscalculate," he said. For that reason, construction of the minimal ABM shield will begin before the end of the year...
McNamara, however, argued that the thin ABM shield is "Chinese-oriented." He did not give much attention to the overwhelming probability that this country could sustain a surprise Peking attach--if China were actually rash enough to hit the U.S. with nuclear weapons--and still retaliate with sufficient force to liquidate the Chinese. Peking's harried leaders are surely aware of this. They also know that Cina cannot hope to achieve anything approaching nuclear party with the U.S. for many decades...