Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...people he would hold responsible for the costly farm program. Fat farm surpluses that have kept farm profits so slim, said he, are the "product more of politics than of productivity. It is wrong to blame the farmer for the fact that Government illogically insisted upon unrealistic incentives to keep production up, while at the same time it conjured up bureaucratic controls in a futile attempt to keep production down...
...said, he would attend any non-Catholic religious service "that has any connection with my public office." No, he would not request Boston's Cardinal Gushing to ask the Vatican to "authorize" Kennedy's views on church-state separation because, just as Kennedy expected the church to keep out of his politics, so he intended to keep out of church matters. What if the Catholic Church used its "privilege and obligation," as white-haired Baptist Minister K.O. White called it, to direct Kennedy's political life? Kennedy stuck out his jaw: "I would reply to them that...
...save dialing time. Businessmen away from their offices can notify the electronic memory, and it will automatically switch all calls for them to their temporary numbers. ¶A computer communications net. Called the SABRE System, it is being built by International Business Machines for American Airlines. The computer will keep in simultaneous automatic touch with American ticket offices everywhere, enable them to provide up-to-the-second information about seating available on flights all over...
...fact, computer progress has outrun man's ability to prepare magnetic-tape instructions complex enough to keep the brains busy. The ideal computer would be one that operators can instruct verbally. Bell plans to build one able to hear and obey some 50 words...
Guns Galore. A shower of new products and processes is augmenting man's age-old efforts to get in out of the rain. Minnesota's Schjeldahl Co.'s polyester plastic balloon structures can be built in half a day, need only an ordinary building fan to keep them inflated, will last five to ten years. Quonset-shaped, the Schjel-dome will work in the arctic or the tropics, can be used for garages and greenhouses, swimming pool covers and grain warehouses, is repaired with a hot iron...