Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Laird was apparently synonymous with "superiority." To further that end, said Laird, the Nixon Administration would continue with the $5 billion-to-$10 billion Sentinel antiballistic missile system. Designed to ward off a primitive Chinese attack-but virtually useless against a heavy Russian assault-Sentinel, in Laird's view, would nonetheless be an important bargaining pawn when negotiations do start with the Soviets. Many Congressmen, who grudgingly agreed to the Johnson Administration's request for funds last year, will disagree. Thus Sentinel, which even many defense experts believe is worthless, may provide the Nixon Administration's first...
...Longer Kings. In fact, Mineral King is not quite that. The skeleton of the abandoned mining town (onetime pop. 500) is still in plain view and at least 60 summer homes now dot the proposed ski valley, which can be reached by an existing dirt road. Moreover, Mineral King is the jumping-off point for summertime packhorse trips into the wild, mountainous wonder. Disney officials say that the Kaweah River is already polluted downstream from the stable of the horse-renting concession-and promised to do something about...
While small towns generally welcome the bases as a boost to their economies, urban dwellers view the ABM more as a magnet to enemy missiles than as a defense against them. On Bainbridge Island, near Seattle, protests are financed by the sale of buttons reading "SCRAM!" -an acronym for Sentinel Cities Reject Anti-Missiles...
...Hughes Bet. Why had an experienced naval officer allowed this condition to exist? Johnson had been lulled into complacency by many factors. His principal argument was wholly unrelated to strategy or circumstance. No U.S. Navy ship, declared Johnson, had been captured in peacetime in 150 years. Thus, in his view, Pueblo's seizure was "highly improbable"-regardless of the belligerent mood of North Korea. "I would suggest," said Johnson, "that a bookmaker would give you such fantastic odds [against the possibility of capture] that someone as rich as Howard Hughes could not pay it off." Admitting that...
...jail uniform of the doomed, were hauled by truck to downtown Liberation Square, where a set of wooden gallows had been hastily constructed to display them. Next morning Baghdadis awoke to martial music and the shrill cries of loudspeakers and radio, urging them to take the day off to view the executed "Israeli spies." For those who could not make the trip, the government ordered the medieval sight broadcast on television...