Word: uses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fears About Security. The reason for the sudden Soviet attack lay in the maneuvering that is going on among Communist countries in preparation for the world meeting of parties now scheduled for June 5 in Moscow. The Soviets had hoped to use the occasion to formally expel the Chinese from the Communist movement. Their aim has been blocked by West and East European parties that have displayed defiance of the Soviets by refusing to go along with this plan. Now the Russians apparently have tried to sidestep the entire issue by asserting that the Maoists are no longer Communists...
...people's liberty, decided that the time had come to crack down. Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Semenov flew to Prague with orders to stamp out Czechoslovak defiance. A more ominous visitor was Marshal Andrei Grechko, the Soviet Defense Minister, whose presence in Prague underscored Soviet readiness to use force if necessary to keep Czechoslovakia in line. At a meeting in Prague's historic Hradčany Castle, the Soviet visitors demanded a pledge from the Czechoslovak government that there would be no recurrence of anti-Soviet outbursts. Otherwise the Soviets would use their own, all-too-familiar methods...
...antiwar song by Pete Seeger and an off-color Romeo and Juliet skit. "We feel it's important," said Tommy, "to stay and continue to push for new standards of broadcast content." That same week, CBS-TV President Robert Wood wired the brothers: "You are not free to use the show as a device to 'push for new standards.' " The response, CBS claimed, was a refusal to provide tapes of new shows in time to meet contractual deadlines. As a result, CBS announced the termination of the show this month, at the end of its third season...
...Tricks. The plane's micro-miniaturized gear includes "side-looking" radar to peer through clouds and map terrain far from its path. New cameras use "folded optics" to produce telescopic closeups in black-and-white or on new, grainless color film-which can be dropped in pods and parachuted to waiting intelligence officers. When sensitive receivers detect incoming radar pulses, the Blackbird can dip into its bag of tricks and give itself "electronic invisibility." There is even a top-secret method of masking the SR-71's heat emissions to confuse enemy infrared tracking. Put together...
Roessel says he will start new courses in any subject requested by students. There will be no pressure to meet a rigid two-year junior college timetable. "We will tell them, 'take your time,' " Roessel says. " 'If you need three years, or four, use them.' " After the college moves from its temporary location to its new campus near Tsaile next year, it will expand its enrollment of 357 to accommodate 1,000 students...