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...country has a commitment, a job to do. We support the President of the United States." Paul Hall of the Seafarers Union sailed headon into J. William Fulbright. "If the Senator from Arkansas," Hall growled, "would do just 10% for the Arkansas Negro as he has said or bled for the Viet Cong, not only would Arkansas be a hell of a lot better state, but this would be a better country." Conventioneers could almost hear a drawling Washington response: "Good...
...Britain when the word first came. Much of the country was sprawled in stuffed chairs watching an old Doris Day movie (Midnight Lace) on the BBC. First there was a fragmentary bulletin that broke into the movie, then a delay in the scheduled 10:25 news while scriptwriters scram bled to get together details. In millions of living rooms up and down the length of Britain, people watched transfixed while a gay Latin American dance rhythm blared from the box, which went blank except for a slide advising...
...bled at Bunker Hill and froze at Valley Forge. I rode with Washington across the icy Delaware. I am defender of our nation. Now and forever, I am the Guard...
...deeply involved that is most often expressed in editorials. "There must be a better way to carry on this war and bring it to an honorable conclusion," said Virginius Dabney's Richmond Times-Dispatch. "As things are going now, it will never end and the U.S. will be bled white. It has become obvious that little progress is being made, despite the presence of 500,000 U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam." The same fear has been expressed by the Miami Herald. "Politically, militarily and most important, honorably," said the paper, "the time for change has come. The alternative...
Leader of the expedition that stum bled on the river of insecticide was Harvard Biologist Carroll M. Williams, 50. Recently Williams has been work ing with hormones that are secreted by insects to permit and regulate growth and maturation from egg to larva to pupa to adult. If insect juvenile hor mone comes in contact with larvae at the wrong stage of development, the in sects will not mature. When insects at later stages are treated with growth hor mone, they are killed by developing at too rapid a rate. Moreover, Williams .and other researchers have discovered that lethal equivalents...