Word: preventative
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...School in 1957. Nor was it hard to choose sides after viewing the twisted faces of white housewives snarling at four frightened black children trying to desegregate New Orleans' grade schools in 1960. President Kennedy neatly federalized Governor Wallace's Guardsmen out from around him when Wallace tried to prevent racial mixing in Birmingham, Mobile, Huntsville and Tuskegee in 1963, leaving the Governor to sputter: "I can't fight bayonets with my bare hands...
...fated effort to defeat the Viet Minh, Ho Chi Minh's revolutionary army. Laos remained on the periphery until the Geneva cease-fire was signed in 1954. From that point, the U.S. presence in Laos grew, spurred by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' determination to prevent Southeast Asia from falling under Communist domination...
Even as rescuers were searching for the victims of Europe's latest avalanches (see THE WORLD), scientists atop an Alpine mountain were continuing the work that may some day prevent such disasters. They are members of Switzerland's Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, the world's first and foremost scientific establishment dedicated to the study and forecasting of avalanches. Before the institute was established 26 years ago, high above the resort town of Davos in the eternal snows of the 8,000-ft. Weissfluhjoch, knowledge of avalanches consisted mostly of folklore. Now, thanks...
...rails. But their most formidable snowbreakers are often inadequate. Two years ago, only a few miles from the institute and in an area adjudged safe because of the protective presence of a pine forest higher on the slope, an avalanche killed 13 people and demolished 20 chalets. Unable to prevent avalanches, the Swiss believe that it sometimes pays to start them at a time and place of their choosing. One method is to blast avalanche-prone slopes with mortars and grenades, a technique also used by U.S. Forest Service rangers. Another is to send an expert-and courageous-skier across...
...French students with experience from the previous May helped to build the barricades and organize the fighting. With buildings afire all around, the barricades were thrown together from cars, scaffolding and rubble. Scaffolding poles were lodged in the barricades and wooden stakes driven into the ground in front to prevent assaults by armored cars...