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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surrendered it only when he became convinced that a committee counsel suspected him of withholding evidence. Discouraged by the "indifference" of the world, Chambers later said he had tried to kill himself during the trials. But even his suicide attempt was bizarre: he sniffed the fumes of a cyanide compound and ended up with only a throbbing headache...
Toward the end of the week the President, like many another American, flew off for a long Fourth of July holiday. It was a time for rest. At the family compound of summer homes on Cape Cod, only a small handful of White House aides mixed in with the gathering of Kennedys, in-laws and close friends. Yet with the Berlin crisis looming large, national policy would surely be discussed-and formed -around that ever-influential forum, the dinner table of old Joseph Kennedy...
...Saudi standards is being made in education. The school population has quadrupled in ten years to 100,000, and the education budget has gone up tenfold. Saud has donated at least ten of his 24 palaces for schools. At King Saud's Sons' Institute, inside the Naziriyah compound, children of slaves sit next to young princes. Risking the displeasure of the austere Wahabi sect of Islam, which believes that woman's place is in the harem and behind the veil, Tariki has put several thousand girls in school...
...miles of the city. In central Laos the town of Kamkeut, which lies astride the strategic road running to Viet Nam, fell to the advancing Reds. Vientiane itself was closely ringed by six Pathet Lao companies which ambushed convoys and sent patrols ranging as far as a U.S. compound barely three miles from the center of the city...
Fine Bond Fides. The value of adding minute quantities (i.e., one part per 1,000,000) of sodium fluoride or a related compound to drinking water to reduce tooth decay among children is beyond scientific dispute. Only last week, the Washington, D.C. Public Health Department reported that an eight-year fluoridation program there has reduced dental caries among children in the seven-year-old age group by 63.5%. Nearly 2,000 U.S. communities, with a population of 38 million, fluoridate their water. The practice is endorsed by the American Dental Association, the American Medical Association, the U.S. Public Health Service...