Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Time off for Homework. Moyers, at 28, was one of the youngest officials ever presented to the Senate for confirmation. "If this trend continues," growled the Meridian (Miss.) Star, "appointees to high Administration posts will have to have time off to do their school homework." Louisiana Democrat Russell Long just could not believe that Moyers was not somehow related to Lyndon Johnson. "Any blood relationship?" he asked. "No, sir," replied Moyers. "Not through marriage or otherwise?" Long persisted. "Only political," said Moyers. Some Senators considered his proposed $19,500 salary outrageous; few were aware that he had in his pocket...
...vastly increased the use of the turbine engine, which provides more power than pistons and can fly about four times longer without an overhaul. The most common helicopter in Viet Nam up to now has been the workhorse Huey (the nickname for Bell's UH-1B), but the trend today is toward larger, more powerful craft. Vertol's 44-passenger, turbine-powered Chinook has already gone into service, and the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) is using Sikorsky's turbine-powered CH-54As-or Skycranes-which can carry 87 men or six Jeeps. Because its Hueys were being...
...totalitarian system, but the old, open-collared party hacks who resist change. Says Kurt Leopold, West Germany's former chief trade negotiator with East Germany: "The younger generation is conspicuously pressing for reform. The older party officials hate them but are powerless to stop the trend...
Gubernatorial elections took place in eleven of Brazil's twenty-two states October 3. They showed a trend to the left, but not to the radical left. They solved some of the government's problems, but they created others...
...clothing industry has fought hard to encourage this trend. In an epochal move, manufacturers jointly undertook a campaign to stress that clothes are too important to be bought only when a replacement is needed. They have to be careful, though, not to push new styling too far too fast; men are more conservative than women, and their styles change slowly. Through subtle changes made over long periods, the industry has shortened coats and sleeves, narrowed lapels and tapered trousers. Two of this year's heralded innovations are the shaped suit and the return of the double-breasted-but they...