Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sweep down, finally, and, like everything else for the Class of '42, it came too soon. A number of class members didn't even wait for June; they were awarded special degrees in January and enlisted...
...life, Thomas H. Moorer has been a comer. He was valedictorian of his high school class at 15, then had to wait two years before he could pick up his appointment and sail through Annapolis in the class of '33. At Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked, he survived to pilot Navy reconnaissance planes again and pick up a fistful of medals, from the Purple Heart to the Distinguished Flying Cross. Since then, he has had some of the toughest jobs in the Navy, including commander of the Seventh Fleet and, most recently, the tricky triple-hatted post...
...that making and using tools didn't signal man's rise from slime. Dreams, language, ritual-all first products of the mind-did. And because the mind is father to the hand, it can reverse the mechanized march to doom. How that might happen will have to wait until Mumford's sequel; this book ends in the 16th century with Kepler, Tycho Brahe and Copernicus metaphorically anticipating the end machine-the bomb...
...take the U.S. completely off the silver standard, Congress is speeding action on a bill that will allow the Treasury (after a one-year wait) to stop redeeming in silver the $553 million of old silver certificate bills that are still in circulation or hoarded away. That action would free 430 million oz. of Treasury silver now frozen by law as backing for the currency. Even so, the Wall Street brokerage firm of Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis recently predicted that the Treasury will run out of silver by mid-1968 (except for a strategic reserve...
...college deferment until their graduation or 24th birthday (whichever came first). Such an option would cripple the President's plan to ease the heavy burden of conscription on lower income groups through the lottery system. It would permit 19-year-olds who have the resources to attend college to wait out the Vietnamese war in school while forcing young men without those resources to serve...