Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon's credit, too, is something that can easily go unnoticed: the absence of any major blunders or "over-reactions." Unlike John Kennedy, he has not had a Bay of Pigs in his first six months. Unlike Lyndon Johnson, he has not had a Dominican Republic. While he did nothing at all when the North Koreans shot down a U.S. airplane, killing 31 men, his restraint was well-advised...
...escaping in the ensuing confusion. Mboya was struck in the chest, blood soaking his suede jacket, and died in an ambulance on the way to Nairobi Hospital. Grieving Kenyans soon gathered in such numbers at the hospital that baton-wielding police were called out to keep the crowd at bay...
...director. The company is managed by Powell and Lawyer Donald Warden; they recruited Brown because they needed a folk hero to appeal to blacks. B & B has signed up about 700 groceries, barbershops, gas stations and even auto dealerships to offer and redeem the stamps in the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles. Customers get four stamps for each dollar spent, and when they have collected a book of 1,200 stamps, they are entitled to $3 in free goods or services. Merchants, who pay about 1½? for each four stamps, appear enthusiastic. Jesse Porter, a barber...
...traded 50 World War I destroyers for British bases in the Western Hemisphere. As Winston Churchill observed, the action "would, according to all the standards of history, have justified the German government in declaring war." President Truman later dispatched troops to Korea without congressional approval, John Kennedy had his Bay of Pigs, and Lyndon Johnson saw no need to ask Congress before sending fighting men to the Dominican Republic...
...less blatant but equally tenacious ambition, and his curious notion that what is good for Reston and the Times is good for the U.S. as well. This peculiar confusion of allegiances, Talese suggests, led Reston, "on grounds of national security," to help doctor a report on the Bay of Pigs which, if printed when and as written, might have prevented the attack from being launched...