Word: wrecker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggest the right man for the tough job of building Task Force 8. McCone's answer was brief: "Get Starbird." Within days, Major General Alfred Dodd Starbird, 49, was squeezing his lanky frame (6 ft. 5 in.) behind a desk in Barton Hall, a building saved from the wrecker's hammer by the sudden need for a temporary headquarters for the task force. A handsome, scholarly and reserved West Pointer, Starbird finished a respectable seventh in the pentathlon at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. As McCone claimed, he had all the credentials for the nuclear...
...group that still remembers: a fiercely dedicated underground called the American Association of Theatre Organ Enthusiasts. Like the electric-trolley buffs and the antique-auto fanciers, the Enthusiasts are a diehard coterie, with a single-minded mission: to save those mighty relics of the recent past from the wrecker's hammer...
Behind all the Soviet muscle flexing and the Western counterplanning lay a common awareness that at the General Assembly Khrushchev, either as wrecker or as propagandist, will be presented with a dazzling variety of targets of opportunity. Among the predictable targets...