Word: adoption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year CIA contract. During and after his Moscow trial. Powers had been criticized in the U.S. for admitting too much. But McCone provided the committee with a memorandum explaining that U-2 pilots had been instructed, in case of misadventure, to "surrender without resistance," "adopt a cooperative attitude," and to feel "perfectly free to tell the full truth" about the nature of their missions and their employment by the CIA-withholding only some of the specifications of the U-2 itself.* Powers himself could add little to what was already known about his flight and capture. He could remember "feeling...
Developed Underdeveloped. Though Russia's northerly location and harsh climate make for low crop yields, a more important cause of food shortages is its long failure to adopt the scientific methods that have revolutionized Western agriculture. Example: with 15 million more cows, Russia produced one-third as much milk as the U.S.; in huge areas of crop land, weed killers are virtually unknown...
...precedent-breaking report to the public on its findings, says that spy-pilots were under instructions to "surrender without resistance and adopt a cooperative attitude toward their captors...
...around as she struck one photogenic pose after another. And Miss Winters' lecture Tuesday night could have taken the form of a long Louella Parsons article. If the exchange of views is to be a success, the visitor must learn from Harvard, too. Visitors should not feel obligated to adopt a scholastic approach, but they must treat the task of communication seriously...
...world. Plainly, he favors a mediating, conciliatory UN executive, and doesn't like the increasingly activist role that the Congo crisis has forced upon it. And, he has said over and over again, the reckless, sloganeering anti-colonialism of the world body's newer members leads them to adopt a deplorable double standard of international morality...