Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Military engineers will start work late this year or early in 1968 on the barrier, known so far to the Pentagon as Project Dye Marker and immediately nicknamed "McNamara's Wall." But it will be no ordinary wall: instead of a Maginot line of concrete and steel, great tracts of rugged, mountainous jungle will be guarded by hidden electronic devices. Some, no larger than a silver dollar, can be seeded by aircraft; once in place, they will detect the movement of the smallest enemy groups and transmit warnings to gun crews miles away. "We are getting better and better...
...standing absolutely idle. The city's Democratic bosses clearly hope that the mayoralty will go the Republican candidate, Joseph Radigan, 46, a prosperous furniture dealer with no previous experience in politics, who, like Hatcher, promises to clean up the corruption and vice that have made the gritty steel town (pop. 178,000) a byword for vice in the Midwest. In desperation, Hatcher has sent urgent appeals to the Administration in Washington and printed a full-page plea for campaign funds in the New York Times (cost...
...companies (Texaco, Humble, Union, Mobil and Shell) went to work hauling in rock and sand fill to build four ten-acre islands. Palm trees as tall as 60 feet were transplanted from Santa Barbara and San Diego, and architects were put to work sketching terra-cotta and steel shells for the oil rigs, designed to look like handsome balconied apartment buildings and soundproofed to keep the drilling noise from echoing across...
...story center there will soon display samples of his paintings, sculpture, lithographs, tapestries, blueprints and models. The building itself, which was opened to the public this summer, is already drawing a thin but steady stream of pilgrims. The geometric cascade of rhomboids and squares, built of bared steel girders, glass and brightly enameled panels of green, red, white and yellow, might have been designed by Corbu himself...
...Montgomery, where he was an accountant for eight years, Geneen became known as a hard-driving young man whose grasp of business, recalls Lybrand Partner Philip Bardes, "went far beyond the balance statement." Geneen next moved through corporate-finance jobs at American Can Co., Bell & Howell and Jones & Laughlin Steel, combing their ledgers, as a colleague of those years later put it, like "a bloodhound on the trail of a wasted dollar." But Geneen, who says he has never been one to "gamble on what other people did," grew anxious to start taking risks...