Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troops stationed in Jordan, who recently started firing their long-range, 122-mm. Russian heavy guns into Israel. Israeli jets flashed across the cease-fire lines three times to bomb the area around the Jordanian town of Irbid and hammer at the artillery positions of the 421st Iraqi battalion. Deep inside Jordan, Israeli commandos blew up two vital bridges connecting Amman and the port of Aqaba...
...offering his resignation. Now M.I.T.'s economics department does not want him back for three rea sons. First, Rostow has been away too long and his courses are being taught differently. Second, Rostow's own interests have changed from economics to world politics. Lastly, there is a deep-running hostility to Rostow as a scholar. Indeed, when Rostow published his celebrated book, The Stages of Economic Growth (1960), from which Kennedy borrowed the phrase "New Frontier," the reviews by his fellow economists challenged his conclusions as superficial...
...Scared. William Moses Kunstler 49, was educated at Yale and Columbia Law School. He handled little beyond matrimonial and business cases until he traveled to Mississippi in 1961 In one of his nine books, Deep in My Heart, he relates that the courage...
Dickey accepted the assignment because the astronauts have a deep sig -nificance for him. "Americans have sunk into the sloth of more and more comfort and convenience," he says. "Many want to give up and see life as essentially miserable. I see life as hardly explored yet. These space guys are showing that miracles can still happen. I was born believing in great efforts...
...pictures showed that a tiny fragment of the bullet was wandering about in his ventricles, the fluid-containing cavities deep inside the brain. When Barrios lay flat on his back, the fragment stayed in an upper ventricle. When he stood up, it went into a smaller, lower ventricle. When he lay down again, it tended to drift back up. The great danger was that it would get stuck in the narrow passage between the ventricles, thereby cutting off the fluid that drains into the spinal canal, and causing fatal pressure within Barrios' skull...