Word: width
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mile road course for sports cars and the stock-car "trioval"-a roughly triangular, 2½-mile circuit with two high-speed turns banked at 31° and a third turn banked at 18°. The banking, the perfectly smooth asphalt paving, plus the track's unusual width -three cars can race abreast-make it the fastest race track in the world. In qualifying trials for last week's tenth annual Daytona 500, the top 13 qualifiers ran the course at more than 180 m.p.h...
Blue Lines. Twin lines running parallel across the width of the ice that divide the rink into three 60-ft. zones-attacking, defending and neutral (center ice). When a team is on the attack, the puck must cross the opponent's blue line ahead of all offensive players (to prevent them from lurking around the goal, waiting for a length-of-the-ice pass); otherwise play is stopped and reopened with a face...
...economists, and other specialists. System programming, according to Andrews, is the critical factor in reaching his goals of movement and communication. A typical application is to the circulation plan of people. With system programming, he says, the designer reaches, a rational decision on the number of elevators or the width of corridors for a building...
...Brave New World. Just as thoroughly, Westin has compiled a catalogue of electronic bugging devices, wiretaps and mechanical spies that will surprise even those who think they are up on the subject. Items currently available: TV cameras small enough to fit in a vest pocket with an "eye" the width of a cigarette; sniper-scopes that can spot a man at 700 yards in the dark; cameras and recorders that turn on when anyone enters a room or starts talking; an ultrasonic wave that can snoop on a conversation by picking up dim voice vibrations in window glass...
...grim irony that Viet Nam's bloodiest battleground should be called the Demilitarized Zone. The DMZ, established in 1954 to keep peace between the two Viet Nams, is a running sore. Across its six-mile width come Northern Communist troops to strike and then scuttle back over a frontier that U.S. fighting men are forbidden to cross. Other battalions slither between Marine outposts to attack from the rear, undermining Saigon's rule in its northernmost provinces...