Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnam--decided to march on Washington and "confront the warmakers." Plans were made for a vague sort of civil disobedience, something that transcended burning draft cards. The marchers were finally permitted to demonstrate in a marked-off area close to the Pentagon, within sight of the E Ring where the Joint Chiefs of Staff plan the bombing raids over North Vietnam...
...days, if you wanted to be connected with University information, you had to dial 868-7600, and tell the Harvard operator to ring 191. The operator would then tell you, "I'm sorry, the lines are busy." The University has taken a major step forward. Now, you can dial information directly, at 491-4451, and hear the busy signal yourself...
Actually, the London ring achieved other goals. In the best planned towns like Harlow, all of Ebeneezer Howard's ideas in Garden Cities of Tomorrow (1902) were finally implemented. Harlow has a surrounding greenbelt, separation of housing and industry inexpensive garden apartments, and a high level of community facilities. Some of the other new towns, however, resemble housing projects more than Howard's ideal city...
Since the Government sunk millions into the London ring without any immediate profits, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government did not designate any new towns in England until a few years ago. Now profits from increased land values in the London ring, together with the development of the town center concept by a prominent architect, has led to the designation of another ten towns...
Antarctica's Mount Herschel doesn't ring in the ear with quite the glory of an Everest, but the direction is up, and that's good enough for New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, 48. Hillary is leading a team of seven New Zealanders and an Aussie in an assault on the unclimbed 11,700-ft. peak, will then do a bit of "adventuring" in his first trip to the Antarctic since his journey to the South Pole in 1958. "I will be fit enough to chug about," said Everest's conqueror, "but I certainly...