Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Backbone of Stanford's linear accelerator (called SLAC) is a 10,000-ft.-long, 4-in.-diameter copper tube housed in a concrete tunnel and buried 25 ft. underground to protect scientists and any bystanders from its fierce radiation. At one end, an electron beam is generated in much the same manner as the beam inside a home TV picture tube. Injected into a nickel-size hole that runs the length of the copper tube, the beam's electrons are immediately accelerated by 6,000,000-watt microwave pulses generated by 245 klystrons-giant, ultrahigh-frequency radio tubes...
...Goodwin sees three "tangled lines of argument." No. 1 concerns the U.S.'s "vital stake" in Asia. Goodwin has doubts about a genuine American interest in defending any country in the area except India-it is "inconceivable" not to use "the full force of American power" to protect India against aggression. But there is a general "almost idealistic" American "judgment," he concedes, that favors helping other Asian lands against conquest by "a hostile power." He has no use for the "Chinese sphere of influence" concession advanced by some dovish intellectuals. On the other hand, "we are not compelled...
...armed forces, whose duty it is to protect the nation's liberties, cannot stand aside and watch our patient and generous people suffer a state of anarchy. This revolution will strive to heal the divisions of our people as well as restore our deserved grandeur in the eyes of the world...
...York, "special guardians" are often named to protect the interests of "infants," meaning heirs under 21. The state's surrogate judges appoint guardians without public notice of their names or fees. One guardian recently got $15,000 for ten hours' work on a $700,000 estate. Rumor has it that New York's guardians return about 30% of their fees to party coffers, which suggests the political leverage of Manhattan's two surrogates (annual salaries: $37,000), who last year appointed 428 guardians while handling estates with a gross value of $941 million. Not surprisingly...
...could not have acted alone," he charges. "Quite clearly, a serious discussion of this problem would in itself have undermined the dominant purpose of the commission, namely, the settling of doubts and suspicions . . . In establishing its version of the truth, the Warren Commission acted to reassure the nation and protect the national interest...