Word: transients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which serves both commercial and military traffic and is the world's busiest airport (1,512 landings and takeoffs a day). Firing with deadly accuracy, they lobbed 200 shells into the base in 20 minutes, ignited a 420,000-gallon fuel tank, smashed the enlisted men's transient billets, and destroyed four parked aircraft and damaged 29. The Viet Cong escaped without a scratch, leaving seven Americans and a Vietnamese dead, 182 wounded...
...were not overly concerned when Mrs. Norma Rowe told them that Alleen had disappeared in May 1964, or even when Dr. James Fritz, a prominent heart surgeon, came in to report his two daughters missing in August 1965. In Tucson, a boom town with an unusually high proportion of transient residents, more than 50 runaway minors are reported each month. Propelled by the same aimless itch, unrestrained by permissive parents, hundreds of teenagers haunt the Speedway. They were easy bait for Smitty, who was older, more sophisticated and, as they said admiringly, "different." His foster parents, owners of a nursing...
...morality. It can command hard decisions as well as easy ones-acceptance of martyrdom, for example, when law morality would permit surrender or compromise. It can also say that certain acts are immoral which law ethics would consider tech nically valid. To the situationist, says Fletcher, "even a transient sex liaison, if it has the elements of caring, of tenderness and selfless concern, is better than a mechanical, egocentric exercise of conjugal 'rights' between two uncaring or antagonistic marriage partners...
...socialites, columnists and dress designers across the U.S. and Canada -in fact, just about anybody who writes in for a ballot. But their votes establish the pecking order among the world's best-dressed women. And last week, as the New York Couture Group promoted Jacqueline Kennedy to transient immortality as a member of the Fashion Hall of Fame, the voters filled Jackie's No. 1 spot with an all but unknown Manhattan socialite, 22-year-old Amanda Mortimer Burden...
...thought out the school bussing issue quite honestly, listed the pro's and con's on both sides, and opted against the technique. He is persuasive much of the time, slipping only once into a non-sequitur, He says that "it is not the role of the militant, transient, outside groups to stir up agitation in school districts for local action," and yet confidently suggests that "the money that would be spent on large scale bussing programs could be put to better use to upgrade weak, racially-imbalance schools." The overemotional association of militancy with outside agitation aside, Mr. Koivumaki...