Word: counting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freshman's bill, the Percy proposal received unwontedly enthusiastic backing from the Senate's 36 Republicans-and mild praise from Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. In the House, Cosponsor William Widnall of New Jersey could count on at least 100 votes. The bill also drew a scathing assault from HUD Secretary Robert Weaver, who blasted it as "totally unsupported by any factual analyses as to the kind and amount of subsidy that would be required for workable home ownership by poor families." Weaver's nine-page critique seemed to reflect a possessiveness about the urban problems that...
...chance to wipe out a U.S. unit, the enemy commander committed a full regiment to his attack. Meanwhile, the U.S. was helilifting in reinforcements. Within three hours, the Viet Cong regiment was being chewed to pieces not by a single platoon but by a full brigade of G.I.s. Final count: 581 Viet Cong dead...
...March, nearly double February's previous record monthly high of 2,917 surrendered enemies. That brought the totals for the government's Chieu Hoi (Open Arms) program for the first quarter of the year to 10,746, already more than half of last year's full count of 20,242 and nearly equal to the 11,124 who defected in all of 1965. The running start puts Saigon's Chieu Hoi goal of 45,000 defectors in 1967 well within reach, even though no Viet Cong units as a group have so far crossed over...
Allergic Reaction. Probably the first human being to receive the enzyme was a boy in Chicago who was dying of leukemia. After infusions of partially purified enzyme from guniea-pig serum, his white-cell count decreased, and so did the swelling of some of his organs. But his red-blood cells were being destroyed as an apparent side effect and treatment had to be stopped. The boy died of his leukemia. The problem of purification remains. Even the presumably safer material extracted from bacteria, in its currently purest form, causes allergic reactions in mice-as it did to some extent...
...such nations as Brazil and Malaysia, hope seemed to lie with a much cheaper and simpler mechanical contraceptive, the intrauterine device, or IUD. Once inserted by a doctor, an IUD can be left in place and forgotten. But latest reports show that illiterate women who can't count can still take their pills on schedule. In Pakistan, Denver's Dr. John C. Cobb got dozens of them to do it, simply by starting them on the night of the new moon. In semiliterate Taiwan, where lUDs have won wide acceptance, more and more women are switching...