Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...electronic control over missile firing. But, as the Sahara explosion made clear, this expedient does not measure up to the big fact of the next era of weaponry, when technologically advanced nations can and probably will create their nuclear forces if the U.S. does not show a way to avoid needless duplication of expense and effort...
...modern pilot, the stresses are just as great. He must absorb hundreds of rules and procedures, study graphs, maps and reports, even occasionally take off his jet on downwind runways because airport operators prefer him to fly over open areas and avoid householders' complaints about noise. A pilot has to be able to make as many as 100 visual "fixes" per minute on his instrument panel during his busiest moments-the landing approach. He must take extra precautions to keep his health during a long flight; pilots and copilots take their meals at alternate times; American Airlines forbids crews...
When Tito came to power, Archbishop Stepinac denounced his antichurch materialism and his political tyranny, drew a 17-day jail sentence in 1945. Curious about such a stubborn prelate, Tito summoned him and saw at once what he was up against. He tried to avoid a showdown with this sallow, unsmiling man. "I do not want steps taken against Stepinac," he is reported to have said afterward. "He has a martyr complex." But the outspoken archbishop was getting to be too much of a hero; people began to kneel as he passed on his daily walks through Zagreb...
...mayor appealed to Rome for relief to both mine and mill. The mill was obsolete and the mine uneconomic, but the pressure worked. The mill agreed to reduce the layoffs to 255 and spread these ottt-ever eleven months. The mine (run by a government-owned corporation) promised to avoid any actual firings, transfer men to other jobs as available...
...radio-TV's Eric Sevareid. He is a liberal, and his key sources are weighted on the liberal side, including, in addition to Stevenson and Fulbright, Presidential Aspirant Hubert Humphrey and Senate Democratic Whip Mike Mansfield. But he tries earnestly, both in his thinking and his reporting, to avoid classification either by ideology or party. He was for Eisenhower in 1952 and for Stevenson in 1956, and his stories showed it. He has been on the cold side of cool toward Richard Nixon, but he may be changing that position; he once said after a session with Nixon...