Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the brisk new Defense Secretary took over his outer-ring Pentagon office last year, he soon decided that the service most in need of reform was the U.S. Army. Robert McNamara was especially exasperated by the Army's seven technical services (ordnance, quartermaster, engineers, signal, chemical, medical and transportation), which over the decades had grown into tight little empires with their own budgets, overlapping research programs-and, all too often, conflicting aims. Last week, firmly prodded by McNamara, the Army proposed a plan that could streamline the tech services and thereby modernize the basic structure of the entire...
...Organization. At Salan's signal, pied-noir demonstrators rush from their homes shouting "De Gaulle to the gallows!" and hammer out on dishpans the deafening rhythm of "Al-gé-rie Fran-caise!" Salan's nod is sufficient to explode plastic bombs* under the bed of a Gaullist security chief in Oran or on the doorstep of a police inspector in Algiers. After each deed, Salan's men boast: "The S.A.O. strikes when it wants, how it wants, where it wants...
...starting gate, eight skittish thoroughbreds pawed at the frozen ground and shot steam from flaring nostrils. Cold-numbed jockeys gripped the reins and tensed for the starter's signal. "They're off!" shouted Track Announcer Raymond Haight-but on the first turn, the horses disappeared in a blinding snowstorm. Haight gave up trying to call the race, made a mock appeal to the crowd: "If anybody knows who that horse is that's on top by four lengths, will he please call extension...
...mystique all its own, and subjects the stock to sudden-and not always rational-gyrations (Ford has gained 37 points since June-mainly because of strong sales and earnings but partly in the hope of a split). Announcement of the split is taken by speculators as the signal to take their profits, and the stock takes a jolt (Ford lost four points on the announcement...
Says Barnes: "Basically, New York's problems are the same as any other city's; they're just bigger." Then he smiles, shifts his cigar from corner to corner, and barks: "Think of it: the biggest city in the world, and not one radar-actuated traffic signal! Oh, there's going to be changes, all right...