Word: corrects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recalled how Nixon told Southerners during the G.O.P. Convention in July that the Republican Party had no intention of ramming anything down anybody's throat. "He's correct about that," said Wallace. "He and Mr. Eisenhower and Mr. Warren have already rammed everything down our throats there is to ram. Well, we gonna have a good throat-clearin...
Once again, the central bankers of Western nations rallied last week to support the pound sterling. They agreed to give Britain $2 billion of stand-by credit. This time, however, Britain's creditors insisted on tough new terms to correct the anomaly of a country that seeks to retain prestige as an international banker while remaining perennially broke. The outcome was a plan to reduce-and perhaps gradually end -the pound's function as one of the world's two reserve currencies...
...subscription. In the first issue last week, a "Combat Exclusive" revealed that hippies had poured a "fortune in LSD into reservoirs" with the hope of turning on the Democratic Convention. But their plans fizzled out, said Combat, when the chlorinated water neutralized the LSD. An item more colorful than correct, since there are no reservoirs in Chicago, and the LSD would have had no effect anyway. Combat also found it significant that Eldridge Cleaver, a Black Panther who is the presidential candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party, was invited to lecture to a group of summer trainees...
...used to convert heat energy to mechanical energy. Thus, say Buehler and Wang, it could be used in fire-extinguisher activators and circuit breakers. "The beauty of Nitinol," says Buehler, "is that it's something you load ahead of time. Then if you put it in the correct temperature range, it pulls the trigger itself...
That assumption may well be correct, but it does not go far enough. In diplomacy, "essential negotiations," as the Hudson Institute's Herman Kahn points out, mean "agonizing compromises on both sides" before any settlement can be reached. Not all the basic goals of either U.S. or North Vietnamese policy are likely to survive a genuine settlement. Furthermore, the nature of the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia has undergone considerable change, as French Political Scientist Raymond Aron has astutely pointed out. Initially, the issue in Viet Nam was blunt, says Aron: "Either the Viet Cong will rule in Saigon...