Word: starting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this the legion of drunken misfits who roam the highways, maintaining their licenses through "friends" at the Registry of Motor Vehicles, and sure enough, these cats start killing off a lot of kids who have never even terrorized a small Midwestern town. So they get all shook when they get hit with a big suit. Their first reaction? Outlaw motorcycles...
...might explode. In notes jotted down at the time, Heatly described Whitman as a "massive, muscular youth" who "seemed to be oozing with hostility." Heatly took down only one direct quote of Whitman's?that he was "thinking about going up on the tower with a deer rifle and start shooting people." That did not particularly upset Heatly; it was, he said, "a common experience for students who came to the clinic to think of the tower as the site for some desperate action."* Nonetheless, Heatly urged Whitman to return the next week to talk some more. Charlie Whitman never...
...bombing of sprawling cities, must search out isolated objectives against a foe supremely skilled at camouflage. Says a fellow pilot of Kasler: "He is part hawk." Blue-eyed Kasler has his own explanation of the job. "When you know where to look for ground targets," says he, "suddenly they start popping into your vision. When you look at rivers, you are looking for camouflaged boats under overhanging trees. You look for roads running up to rivers. They have to traverse a river somehow, so somewhere near that area are pontoon bridges or barges, motor tugs or ferries...
Colonial Reminder. At the zenith of Britain's imperial power in the late 1800s, the Colonial Office ruled more than 100 colonies in every quarter of the globe. It might, in fact, have ruled more, but the office got off to a bad start. It was created in 1660 as the Council of Foreign Plantations to supervise British settlements in the Western Hemisphere. After the American colonists revolted-partly in protest against the unenlightened policies of Colonial Secretaries-the Colonial Office was abolished for nearly 75 years, and its functions reverted to other ministries. When the Colonial Office...
...needy nations dare rely on largesse much longer. With world population in the past five years growing twice as fast, at 2% a year, as food output, man's struggle against hunger has reached a historic turning point. It has already forced dozens of ill-fed countries to start reshaping their pride-twisted economies. It has upset old notions of geopolitics. Most dramatic of all, it has virtually eaten up the perennial overproduction of U.S. agriculture, whose bounty now feeds one out of every 20 persons in Africa, Latin America and non-Communist Asia. The State Department last week...