Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trailblazing. Last week the stock-brokerage firm of Goodbody & Co. took a trailblazing step toward the obvious remedy: more automation. It put into operation a new electronic system to speed the reporting of buy and sell orders from the floor of the Big Board and the American Exchange to its own back offices. Manufactured by the Bunker-Ramo Corp., the new equipment resembles a miniature television receiver mounted on a small adding machine. It enables floor clerks to send the details of every transaction to the offices at a rate of 110 characters per second, more than ten times faster...
...world's major reclamation projects moved a step ahead last week. Meeting in Paris, representatives of Pakistan and the World Bank finally selected the contractor who will build the giant Tarbela Dam on the Indus River in remote West Pakistan. Winner of the job, with a bid of $623 million for the eight-year project, is a consortium of French and Italian companies led by Impregilo of Milan...
Long journey always start with one short step...
...weariness with traditional humanism. He assessed man's efforts to achieve salvation through political ideology and art, and concluded that the U.S. had begun to shift from a whisky culture to a dope culture. In 1964 this was not prophetic vision but alert reporting. He took an extra step, however, by describing the spread of marijuana, peyote and the synthetic mind benders as "the red man's revenge." The Return of the Vanishing American, an examination of the development of the American western novel, is an elaboration on this last point...
...many students renewed hope in a political process that seemed--and may well be--incapable of coping with the nation's crises. Yet there can be little doubt that of the two men, Kennedy has a far better chance of capturing the Democratic nomination. We urge Gene McCarthy to step aside in favor of Kennedy, who offers the best hope of winning the Presidency and extricating America from Vietnam...