Word: dis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nationwide, the N.C.D.C.'s figures show only about one-third as many measles cases so far in the current dis ease year as at this time a year ago. That is a good start. "It's unprecedented in the history of preventive medicine to try to eradicate an entire disease in one year," says Dr. Dull, "but there is good reason to believe it can be done...
Arrest & Suicide. Violence and dis order continued to rule from the cities of the eastern river valleys to the western desert of Sinkiang. The deposed mayor of Shanghai was hauled through the city's streets atop a trolley car, his head bowed and a placard tied about his neck. Armed battles between pro-and anti-Maoist factions roiled the streets of Canton, and north of the city, in Kiangsi province, an army of anti-Mao peasants was reported gathering-and daring Mao's Red Guards to come and fight them. Wall posters announced the suicide of onetime Army...
...state of uncertainty" at the university. Speaker Unruh, who the day before had implicitly rejected Kerr's admissions freeze, declared that it set "a very dangerous precedent" to fire a president when an incoming Governor takes over. University officials, however, feared that the blunt manner of his dis missal would have an adverse effect on faculty recruiting. At some campuses, student organizations that less than a year ago were ready to demonstrate for Kerr's dismissal, made plans to demonstrate on his behalf. Campus leaders warned that the regents' action was a preliminary to a further crackdown...
Last week Joe Martin, now 81 years old and himself enfeebled after a dis- tinguished, 42-year career on Capitol Hill* that included four years as Speaker of the House of Representatives and 20 years as Republican leader, went down to defeat in the G.O.P. primary at the hands of an aggressive woman candidate who based her campaign on the same youth-v.-age attack that Martin had used to win his first election. Hennahaired Mrs. Margaret Heckler, 35, a pert, petite (5 ft. 21 in.) lawyer-housewife from Boston's upper-class suburb of Wellesley, tossed Martin...
...strikes him as "esthetically pleasing" and has not yet been seriously challenged, Stannard is quick to admit that there is no proven evidence to support it. Asked by a U.S. student for a simple explanation of his theory, Stannard sent a copy of his Nature article and included some dis arming advice: "If you don't understand the theory, it doesn't matter, because it probably isn't true...