Word: alters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Violence is reality," he added, "and it does no good to get hung up on its morality, because right or wrong the causes are still there." He attributed the racial violence of the past three years to the failure of integration and the due process of law to significantly alter ghetto life...
...Alter Ego. A Yale-educated West Virginian, Vance, 50, arrived on the Washington scene in 1957 to help draft the Space Act, then was chosen as special counsel to the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee, chaired by L.B.J. After the Democratic accession in 1961, Vance became general counsel to McNamara, moved up to Secretary of the Army a year later. During his 18 months in that post, and later as Deputy Secretary, he supervised the revitalization of the Army and other "cost-effective" reforms as McNamara's discreet alter ego. Vance's health is a limitation in the grinding...
Murphy's near-flawless form garnered 331.8 points. Captain Pete Alter placed second to give Harvard another sweep...
Team Captain Pete Alter provides added strength for the diving squad. John Bragg and Pete Adams back up Shrout in the freestyle and individual medley events. The weakest area on the team is the 200 yard backstroke event where the best backstroker, Alan Birch, could do last year was a not-fast-enough...
...brief drama, shown recently on CBS evening news, has been replayed in a hundred variations since TV turned its cameras on the war. The principals may change, the settings may alter, but the essentials are always the same: destruction and death, horror and heroics in a brutal struggle against an unseen enemy of unknown character. The TV correspondents, stern faced and looking somehow too neat and clean-shaven, are omnipresent. But their words, imposed on scenes of stark and often shocking realism, seem superfluous. They say that U.S. casualties have risen 15% over a previous month, that the Army uses...