Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plastics will revolutionize the way our homes look as much as the Bauhaus or the Scandinavian moderns did. They can be brightly pigmented and highly light reflecting--we may be surrounded with color and shine at no extra cost. Opaque orange umbrella stands and chairs and translucent turquoise inflatable armchairs are at the show and on the market. Many of these furnishings are still outrageously expensive, but prices will go down...
...work is billed as one play by three authors, but Morning, Noon and Night is merely an umbrella covering three disparate statements...
Modest Yet Vigorous. Such measures would cost money-money that the Europeans, protected for nearly 20 years by the U.S. nuclear umbrella, have always been loath to spend. In his 16th and farewell appearance before the ministers, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk was as candid as Lemnitzer, telling the European partners that they must carry a greater share of the burden. Rusk and U.S. Defense Secretary Clark Clifford offered only an estimated $50 million in fresh U.S. aid. They also promised to return to Europe for maneuvers two infantry brigades and four tactical Air Force squadrons that had been...
While all Japanese want Okinawa back, they are far less unanimous on the future of U.S. forces there. If nuclear weapons are banned from Okinawa, as they are banned in Japan itself, the Japanese would have to forgo an important part of their U.S. nuclear umbrella-and take on a larger share of Far East defense. For its part, the U.S. is unwilling to set a date for handing back Okinawa until the Japanese resolve that question, or until prospects improve for peace in Asia...
...sometimes startling. In Chicago, between 1961 and 1963, an "excessive number" of applicants rejected for patrolman suffered from paranoia. "There is something about police power that attracts to its ranks a particular kind of person," explains Dr. Abrams, a member of the examining team. "It gives them an umbrella to legitimatize their pathology. They can act out their problems and be rewarded...