Word: swifter
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Once the nations of the world were fortresses lying snugly behind their three-mile limits, a tradition established 250 years ago, when three miles was the span of a cannon's shot. In the modern world of atoms, rockets, and planes swifter than sound, the wall of the fortress is invisible. The wall is electronic-an outthrust barrier of radars, direction-seeking radios and - aiming instruments. For both the U.S. and the Soviet Union, it has become vital to spot and plot the ever-shifting shadows and strengths of the adversary's invisible frontier...
...year after bitter wrangling with the airlines, A.L.P.A. got the right to have a third pilot sit in this seat on American, TWA, Eastern and Pan American jet planes; it was the union's way of ensuring that jobs for pilots do not decrease too drastically as the swifter, larger jets cut down the number of individual flights. A.L.P.A. does not want to see the third pilot replaced even temporarily by an inspector, for fear it might weaken the union's argument that a third pilot is essential to the safe operation of the jetliners...