Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troop concentration only 20 miles from the capital. It was the 17th mission for the B-52s since they were first brought into the war last June. Though each plane's sortie on the 5,200-mile round trip from Guam costs $30,000, the B-52s have distinct merits. Each can carry 20,000 Ibs. of the 750-lb. and 1,000-lb. bombs, deliver them in a saturation pattern that fighter-bombers cannot duplicate-on targets the Viet Cong do not know in advance. How many V.C. are killed in each strike is hard...
...Less than 30 years ago, cystic fibrosis was not even recognized as a distinct disease. It was regarded as a relative ly rare and puzzling inherited disorder of the pancreas, which for some un known reason caused the lungs to fill with an unusually thick viscid mucus. Today doctors know a lot more about "C.F.", enough, in fact, to give it the unenviable reputation of being one of the most common long-lasting disorders of children, and one of their major kill ers. As a cause of death, reports Dr. Paul A. di Sant'-Agnese of the National Institutes...
...sinuous Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers (which most Indians regard as holy), through the crammed chawls and boiling bustees of Bombay and Calcutta, to the humid tip of the subcontinent at Cape Comorin, India is a kaleidoscope of contrast (see color pages). Within its embattled boundaries it embraces six distinct ethnic groups, seven major religions, 845 languages and dialects, and two ancient and antagonistic cultures: the Indo-Aryan (primarily Hindi-speaking) in the north, the Dravidian (speaking mainly Telugu and Tamil) in the south. Its peoples range from sultry Sikhs in silken turbans to naked Nagas armed with crossbows; from country...
...OLFACTRONICS is a fancy word for a new science of smell being developed by researchers at Illinois Institute of Technology. As they see it, men should be able to smell as well as dogs-that is, tell people apart by each individual's distinct chemical signature. So far, the researchers have found that human odors can characterize a person's age, sex, race, diet, health and general area of residence. Though still highly experimental, telltale smells could become an important tool. Under contract to the Federal Aviation Agency, the Illinois team is now working on a machine...
...girls have, in fact, been spotted reading poetry by flashlight while perched in a tree. Philosopher-Lawyer Bloustein, who in his own education tended toward the "interdisciplinary development that John Dewey suggested," looks forward to presiding over a school where "an individual can involve himself in two or more distinct disciplines." He will teach at least one course himself. "Ideas are the thing," he says. "At Bennington, even the trustees have ideas...