Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Signal Failures. The lightning rod for most criticism is, of course, the President. Johnson, complains one sub-cabinet member, has a singular ability to "catalyze disenchantment"-not to mention disbelief. Few Congressmen-and fewer newsmen-take the President of the U.S. completely at his word. When he forecast a deficit of only $8 billion for the current fiscal year, few believed that it would be so small. Now that he is predicting a deficit of up to $35 billion, hoping thereby to prod Congress into enacting his 10% tax surcharge, few believe that it will be so large...
...President has undeniably failed in some signal tests of executive performance. He has not built a genuine "Johnson team." Curiously, more first-rank Kennedy men have stuck it out with him than have the men whom he himself brought into the Government, notably Bill Moyers, Jack Valenti, George Reedy. Johnson, moreover, has failed to perform the crucial executive function of charting a clear course for the future. One top economist complains that Johnson's close-to-the-vest method of operation, perfected during 24 years in Congress, has left major institutions stumbling around in the dark on vital policy...
...heads of the enemy brings honor and virility. The guerrillas should have reckoned with this tradition when they butchered a dozen recalcitrant Dayaks in the village of Taum. Angry tribal powwows quickly followed throughout northwest Kalimantan, and runners were sent from village to village with bowls of blood, the signal to all Dayaks to get ready to use their homemade pistols, poison darts and machete-like parangs against the Chinese...
Most of the time fewer than the maximum 32 are in use, and the answering signal precedes a minute or two of silence during which the caller turns from telephone to teletype and begins to make conversation. If no teletype contact is established during that period, the computer gas impatient and cuts off the caller...
...core of Harvard's time-sharing computer network, has an unlisted phone number. Dialing that number rewards the caller with a unique, minor-key whistle, or else a busy signal, if 32 of some 125 SDS teletype units distributed around the University are already in conversation with the central computer...