Word: effect
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Joint Chiefs of Staff. The J.C.S., elevated to new operational status, in effect commands the armed forces under the President and the Defense Secretary. Recognizing this broadened role, the bill enlarges the J.C.S.'s Joint Staff from 210 officers to 400, and, while shying from any idea of a general staff, effectively makes the J.C.S. chairman more powerful than he had ever been by giving him power to assign duties to the Joint Staff. The bill also authorizes the three service chiefs who are J.C.S. members to delegate their service duties-but not responsibilities-to their vice chiefs...
...House passed, 241 to 155, another woolly bill, drafted to get around a Supreme Court decision: a 1956 ruling that, in effect, nullified state antisubversive laws on the grounds that federal legislation had pre-empted the field. Under the House measure, a federal law would not supersede a state law in the same area unless 1) Congress so specified, or 2) there was a "direct and specific conflict." Opponents warned that the bill would lead to endless jurisdictional tangles between federal and state laws in such fields as interstate commerce regulation, even civil rights. Senate prospects: very...
...which had bought the fake interview as the cool truth, and forthwith dispatched it without credit to Gleason's column. Said the U.P.I, story: "San Francisco's famed 'beatsters' are shaving off their beards, Jazz Musician Shorty Pederstein explains, 'The beard has lost its effect and is now respectable. To wear a beard is no distinction. Not to wear a beard is the strongest pattern of nonconformity...
...Western fullback in 1908. Dr. Wilce did more than any other coach to give Columbus a permanent football mania, led his teams to three Western Conference championships. He studied bone mending between sessions of bone breaking, earned his M.D. in 1919, went on to do research on the effect of athletics on the heart (conclusion: no permanent damage). Wilce had an intellectual's approach to football, once experimented by painting State's locker room bright red to inspire his meat eaters...
When Sally is not bounding from bed to bed, she is asking the sort of defiant, wide-eyed questions that, in fiction anyway, have such a devastating effect on grownups. She is also a determined kiss-and-tell girl, and after sleeping with her stepfather, endlessly discusses the affair with other members of the household. Mother proves the most understanding of the lot, but young Chris is outraged. Says he: "You're too much for me. You look so normal, but you're as mixed up as any of them!" To prove his own normality, he abandons...