Word: useless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-missile defense system. We have depended, since the beginning of the nuclear race, on the threat of retalliation to deter potential aggression. Both the U.S. and the USSR have relied on increasing offensive capacity to cause nuclear stalemate. Defensive systems such as Nike-X have been considered useless in view of bipolar balance, for the very practical reason that such a system would probably be in effective in case of an all-out attack by hundreds of enemy ICBMs...
...wing pods, which are not as stable and accurate as fuselage-mounted cannons. The Phantom was designed to stand off at some distance and zero in electronically. In the duels so far, the MIGs have been unwilling to play that game, are ducking in close where missiles are virtually useless. An advanced Phantom with integral cannons is under development; in the meantime, for all the U.S. success thus far, the Pentagon at week's end prudently dispatched a team to try to improve the U.S. pilots' tactical use of Sidewinders and Sparrows in the emergent...
...Mother, a memory portrait that bridges from surrealism to the beginnings of abstract expressionism. Klee mimes a four-footed animal in his calligraphic Mask of Fear. Kuhn creates another kind of mask-that of the silent, sad clown-and makes it a vision of man turned into useless performer, while Albright excoriates the self in his wrinkly "And God Created Man in His Own Image." Unrelated by style or influence, each artist nonetheless portrays man in the early Depression years as a desperate creature searching for identity, not sorrow...
...Proud. Anyway, said Pompidou, NATO has been something of an empty shell, since not the alliance but the U.S. atomic arsenal is what has effectively guaranteed the peace for the past 15 years. Therefore, talk of integration of NATO forces is useless because no one is willing to integrate the only force that really counts, the atomic arsenal. "The U.S. has always kept 95% of its nuclear force out of NATO and kept absolute control of the other 5%." Because the U.S. thus controls the use and distribution of all NATO's nuclear arms, said Pompidou, NATO can never...
This defensiveness, plus the huge ideological gap between gubernatorial Democrats and legislative Republicans, made it difficult and rather useless for Fifties Liberals to conceive of any sort of political compromise. This attitude did not serve Williams well in the 1959 cash crisis--the incident which destroyed his national and severely damaged his local reputation. State revenues had simply dried up during the 1957-58 recession, and when Williams presented a reasonable tax program, the legislature, eager to increase the sales tax, refused to budge. So did Williams. As a result, the state could not meet its payrolls and phrase "payless...