Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ties. The two papers reached their carefully documented conclusions after months of following Philby's tortuous trail from his college days to the Kremlin...
...Trail of Terror. Lone standout was Mayor Don MacGillivray, a World War II aviator, who firmly believes: "We're going to have to put up with some inconveniences for defense and research-and besides, this ordinance is unenforceable." Not even the ban's supporters seriously thought they were going to catch supersonic culprits up in the air, but they did hope it would at least serve as a precedent. Says Santa Barbara City Attorney Stanley Tomlinson: "I know we'll come in for some kidding about this, but it's high time somebody somewhere spoke...
...received 1,630 letters of complaint, 1,497 of them claiming damage (usually cracked plaster and glass) caused by sonic booms. In Boston, the Air Force and Air Guard are formally investigating a recent boom that, according to newspaper accounts, knocked scores of pedestrians off their feet, leaving "a trail of terror...
...single SST flying supersonic across the U.S., believes Shurcliff, would trail behind it a bang zone 50 miles wide that could destroy the peace of 20 million Americans. He also argues that competition from cheaper, larger "jumbo jets"-which will produce no sonic boom-could turn the SST venture into "a gigantic boomdoggle" with the taxpayers absorbing most of the loss. "We all believe in progress," he says for his group, "but some things just aren't progress. Aviation should be the servant of man, not his scourge...
Anti-Bugging. Westin also warns about the polygraph (lie detector) and personality tests that are sometimes required for employment. Worse still, he feels, could be the impact of computers. Already Americans leave a detailed trail of vital data about themselves-insurance questionnaires, loan applications, census forms, employment applications, tax returns, military and school records. If all of these are gathered into one Orwellian information bank, as some officials have proposed, a man's life may well be available at the punch of a button. When all financial transactions begin to be carried out by a universal credit-card...