Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert McNamara announced a long overdue program to eliminate "humiliating discrimination" in off-base housing against Negro G.I.s who are often forced to travel long distances to and from their Southern bases. It might even ease the complaint of the Air Cav's Jim Hamlet, who refuses to accept post-Viet Nam duty in the segregated South -"although some of the best jobs in Army aviation are there...
...China then issued a five-point ultimatum ordering that Britain: 1) accept the demands put forward by the Chinese workers in Hong Kong, 2) stop all "fascist measures," 3) free all who were arrested, 4) punish the police who made the arrests and compensate the "victims" for time in jail, and 5) pledge that similar incidents would not happen again. To keep the pressure on, crowds ransacked the home of the British consul in Shanghai; a "support Hong Kong" parade was held in Canton, and a monster rally of 100,000 turned out in Peking...
...Internist Henry Mayer of Redwood City, Calif., Plastic Surgeon John Constable of Boston, and Pediatrician Theodore Tapper of Philadelphia -struggled to establish reliable casualty estimates. They visited 37 of the Viet Nam government's provincial hospitals in three weeks, but in the end could do no better than accept the Vietnamese Ministry of Health's report that casualties are now being admitted to its hospitals at the rate of 50,000 a year. Among them: 10,000 children. The doctors noted that according to some estimates, only one-third of civilian casualties ever reach a hospital. That would...
...Phillip Caper, a Harvard resident physician who organized the heal-in, announced that the 450 house officers -- who come from Harvard, Boston University, and Tufts medical schools -- had decided to accept a "program of salary increases" which the executive committee of the Greater Boston Hospital Council worked out earlier...
...call for a base of $6600 a year for interns. The house officers, whose base pay is now $3600, were asking for a plan which would range from $7200 for first year men to $10,200 for fifteen-year residents. The interns had said yesterday they would not accept a compromise...