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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...estimates of damage. Of 164 disorders last year, eight turned out to be "major," 33 were "serious," and the rest were not normally worthy of attention "had the nation not been sensitized by the more serious outbreaks." Early damage estimates in Detroit ran as high as $500 million; the actual total has since dropped to $45 million...
Painstaking preparations paid off. As Mercury began to move behind the sun, M.I.T. computers detected increasing delays in the return of radar signals slowed by the sun's gravitational field. Plotted against the theoretical delays predicted by the Einstein equations, the actual delay time formed a remarkably similar curve, increasing to approximately one five-thousandth of a second just before Mercury passed behind...
...response to these questions represents the weakest point in the Administration's case. "Review of action makes many reported contacts and torpedoes fired appear doubtful," wired Captain John Herrick, commander of the patrol. "Freak weather effects and overeager sonarman may have accounted for many reports. No actual visual sightings by Maddox, suggest complete evaluation before any further action." With access to classified information, Herrick has since changed his mind. McNamara says that he has "unimpeachable" intelligence, probably intercepted North Vietnamese radio messages, to verify independently not only that Hanoi planned an attack on the U.S. destroyers but also that...
...precisely when the first hockey game-field or ice-was played. The enameled design on a 14th century French cruet shows figures playing a game with sticks and a stone or ball, and there are historians who claim that the field variety originated in ancient Greece or Persia. The actual name hockey was born, so goes one tale, when French explorers pushing into the St. Lawrence Valley in 1740 came upon a band of Iroquois Indians whacking away at an object-and each other-with murderous-looking sticks and shrieking "Ho-gee! Ho-gee!" The word, as it turned...
...terms of actual effect on registrants, this was the most important decision facing the President and also the most politically delicate. His decision was not included in the Concil's official memorandum of advice to Hershey; he was perfectly willing to let the General take the criticism that followed. Although it was not announced publicly, Johnson is known to have considered two alternatives: * Prime age group of age-mix plan. Under this plan, all men losing their II-S deferments in June would be considered to be born in 1949 for draft purposes. These "constructive" 19-year-olds would...