Word: cures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inexorably toward execution without either the President's being able to obtain a firm grip on it or reverse it." Still, whatever weaknesses there may have been -or may remain-in government decisionmaking, there seems nothing wrong with the apparatus that firm leadership at the top cannot cure. The trouble at the time, both chroniclers argue, was the President's newness. He had been in office only twelve weeks and, writes Sorensen: "He did not fully know the strengths and weaknesses of his various advisers. He had not yet geared the decision-making process to fulfill...
...much more hellish spectre to Glenn was the possibility of permanent injury. So, characteristically, to put as much stress on himself as possible he flew as often as he could, a sort of kill or cure thereby that proved successful...
...laws," says Yale Law Professor Alexander Bickel, "are blunt, primitive tools of social control. The real trouble is that criminal law doesn't fit what you are trying to do." Narcotics and gambling, Bickel points out, are both primarily social problems for which the law has no real cure. Clearly, police must have effective powers to curb these offenses, as well as more serious crimes. The question that has never been fully answered in the U.S. is what the extent of those powers should...
Premier Ky has his own kill-or-cure answer. Wearing wrap-around sunglasses and a button-down choler, he flew through the country last week in his purple Aerocommander, counselling the crowds: "Blindfold all the rice merchants, attach them to a pole, and ask them whether or not they agree to lower their prices." The cocky little air force general had even tougher words for a U.S. correspondent on his plane. Said he: "I'll govern this country like a military command. If I say the price of rice should drop, what I want to see is a price...
...Weisman began collecting back in 1944 when, working with American Indians, he acquired herbs, roots and amulets that were used to cure diseases. While traveling in Mexico, he noticed that many pre-Columbian figurines had physical defects, concluded that they were meant to tell a story, possibly a medical story...