Word: containedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In 1960, John Volpe, a wealthy contractor and the son of immigrants, became governor in his first bid for elective office. Volpe defeated Sen. Joseph D. Ward (D-Fitchburg), then the Secretary of State. Although he was the official Republican candidate, Volpe, aware that Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 2 to...
And he did. Nielsen drove up in a Chevrolet van that contained telephone, air conditioning, fluorescent lights, desk, couch, wall-to-wall carpeting and drawers of files, facts and insurance tables. He went to work with statistical tables and a desk calculator, and had soon figured out-and sold-a...
With painstaking loyalty to the law, the California Supreme Court has just reversed the doctor's conviction, "solely on the ground that the trial court erred in giving a felony-murder instruction." While the record may have contained sufficient evidence to support a conviction of second-degree murder, the...
Harry Truman's 23% in 1951. Desperately anxious to reverse the trend, the President has fallen back on the technique of justifying his actions in terms of pledges made by his predecessors. Thus last week he explained current U.S. objectives in Viet Nam by quoting something John F. Kennedy...
∙EXTRA INDIGENTS. And then there is Title 19, a little-publicized section contained in the Medicare act. It, too, will add to the U.S.'s new-patient load, for it extends existent federal programs-offering free health care to children under 21 of impoverished families and to adults...