Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sensitive point with Hanoi's representatives was whether the released prisoners would remain with escorts of the peace delegation all the way back to the U.S. In the first of two previous releases, the prisoners had been met in Laos by State Department representatives, who induced them to board military aircraft for the rest of the trip home, thus cutting them loose from their pacifist escorts. The North Vietnamese felt that this had reduced the propaganda effect of their gesture and were anxious to avoid a recurrence...
...week's end the infra-red spectrometer on board Mariner 7, the second of the two vehicles that flew past Mars, detected two gases-ammonia and methane-that could indicate the presence of primitive life. Both are produced on earth by biological decay. George C. Pimentel, a University of California chemist, said that he was unable to determine the amount of ammonia in the Martian atmosphere, but he estimated the concentration of methane as "no more than a few parts per million." In the earth's atmosphere, the amount is about 1.5 p.p.m.-and added rather jovially that...
Talking Down. Among Bynder's criteria for rating the doctors chosen by other doctors are: 1) whether they have university appointments and if so, what rank, 2) their standing in professional societies, and 3) whether they are board-certified specialists. According to these standards, doctors choose a topnotch doctor in only 33% of the cases involving a minor illness. With a more serious illness, they are more likely to seek the most expert care. But Bynder found it "particularly striking" that even in such instances, they buy the best in only 55% of the cases...
Last spring, wild charges began to fly, so wild that Noguchi was summa rily suspended from duty by the county's board of supervisors. When the Civil Service Commission, sitting as a three-man trial board, took up the case, however, some of the charges were dropped, or were considerably watered down. Before the board of supervisors, for example, Lindon S. Hollinger, the county's chief administrative officer, and Counsel Martin Weekes alleged that Noguchi had said: "I hope Kennedy will die so I'll get to do the autopsy on him and a chance to make...
...Shady Hill site, like the neighborhood around it, is now mostly zoned for one-family residential housing: the University will have to get approval from the City's Planning Board. Board of Zoning Appeal and the City Council to build the 300 units there...