Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farmers and tradespeople in Belgium take mental patients into their homes and turn their whole town into a haven for malades? Clue: Money is not the answer. (See BEHAVIOR, "A Town for Outpatients.") - Why do U.S. astronauts feel so strongly about open communication circuits from orbiting spacecraft to earth, particularly when they are ill? (See SCIENCE, "A Spectacular Step Toward Lunar Landing...
...What happens when a splenetic mayor, who does not take the mildest kind of criticism in good grace, thinks that a loquacious politician, whose ambitions he did not approve of, has become cheeky? (See THE NATION, "Of Heart and Spleen...
...months the Army actually started selecting missile and radar sites and began physical work on the system. Some of the areas considered were choice suburban locations near big cities, and many of ABM's neighbors-to-be hollered their objections so loudly that their representatives in Congress had to take notice. For legislators who were already skeptical of Sentinel, time to do anything about it seemed to be running out. Since the first appropriations for construction and pro curement were approved last year, this year's defense budget might be the last opportunity to halt or slow the undertaking...
...Garrison could get clipped several ways. Shaw has announced that he is considering legal action, which could be either against Garrison or his group of backers. The American Bar Association has hinted that it might want to investigate the D.A.'s "motives." Garrison's real test will take place outside the courtroom. He is up for reelection next November...
Since posing as a deliveryman is a favorite trick of burglars, many luxury apartment houses require the doorman to accept all packages. After a number of sanguinary holdups, one fatal, bus drivers have no access to cash (passengers must use tokens or take scrip in change). Some athletic events in public high schools have been canceled or played unannounced because crowds have gone on the rampage at earlier games. "A lot of us-and I was one-kept saying that it couldn't happen here," says Mrs. Tom Wicker, wife of the New York Times columnist...