Word: adoption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Turkey, which is entitled to keep a regiment of 650 soldiers in Cyprus, has also pumped in fresh forces from the mainland. But the Turkish Cypriots, lacking the control of the main ports that Makarios' men enjoy, have had to adopt unorthodox import techniques that make it impossible to bring in as many reinforcements as the Greeks. One battalion of perhaps 200 paratroopers was recently dropped clandestinely along the 15-mile-long road from Nicosia to coastal Kyrenia, where the legal Turkish regiment keeps watch over the only outlet from the capital the Turkish Cypriots control. Along with...
Jungles and an Aviary. Individual architects such as Edward D. Stone and Philip C. Johnson have designed custom-built atrium houses for private clients in years past. But only lately have mass builders begun to adopt the style. Pacesetter Homes set 169 atria on a tract in San Clemente, Calif., and Builder William J. Levitt-of the Levittown Levitts -includes a version of the house in his 1,450-unit development currently abuilding near Cape Kennedy, Fla. Greatest enthusiast is California's Joseph L. Eichler, who has built some 3,000 houses in 31 development tracts in the last...
...reaction of the European press has swung me over to the Goldwater side. It is about time that Americans start worrying about America. We should not adopt selfish isolationism but should stop trying to please everyone. If Europe is against Goldwater, he must have something...
...York City in January decided to adopt Vera procedures for all its criminal courts. Experiments with the system have also been started in eight other major cities, including Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and Attorney General Robert Kennedy is encouraging federal courts to release more prisoners without bail. Reflects Louis Schweitzer: "There is an old saying, 'nothing is so terrible as watching a beautiful theory being butchered by brutal facts.' But this is one time when the facts came out as beautifully as the theory...
...whites and hence believe a good part of the problems of race relations is one of changing the white culture. Negroes do not place all of the blame for the problem of discrimination on the whites, however." The study found that over half of the Negroes "were willing to adopt the position that some, but not most of the troubles that Negroes have are their own fault-their behavior patterns, their outlook on life...