Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protest leaders. The marching feet belong not to demonstrators but to the 925,000 youths receiving college and graduate degrees this month. Some of the most violent students have been expelled, suspended, imprisoned or pacified. Here and there last week, a few recalcitrants cried defiance, but with little tangible effect. It looks like peace. In reality, the prevailing condition is a most fragile truce...
...Pentagon is unhappy about the prospect of losing Okinawa. Strategically, however, removal of nuclear weapons and bombers should have little effect on overall U.S. capability. The four Polaris submarines and five Navy aircraft carriers now in the area, plus nuclear-armed planes in South Korea and possibly the Philippines, could take up the slack. A logical pullback position for long-range bombers and ground troops would be Guam, a U.S. possession 1,400 miles southeast of Okinawa...
...appropriations supporting it - to manufacture and deploy the missiles. Thus one possible way out of the virtual deadlock in the Senate is to go ahead with the basic program while deferring judgment on actual emplacement of the missiles. Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke began circulating a written proposal to this effect three weeks ago. Last week Republican Whip Hugh Scott said in a press conference that he saw "no objection" coming from the Administration. Equally significant was a recent speech by New Hampshire Democrat Thomas Mclntyre, chairman of the Armed Services subcommittee on research and development. He raised the possibility...
...fish, bats, owls. At the moment, she is preoccupied with lizards, which, she says, "look like man in certain stages. The drippings you'll find in my paintings are characteristic of the mire men and animals find themselves in." She quotes Flannery O'Connor to the effect that "what people consider grotesque is really reality, and what they think is reality is grotesque." Adds Mrs. Beerman: "I'm in full agreement. I really feel that I'm depicting reality. People ask me if I have bad dreams. No. These paintings that...
...Early last January, the Committee on the University and the City, chaired by James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, released some of its preliminary conclusions about the effect Harvard inevitably has on the town around it and the role Harvard must play in Cambridge affairs. In April, the Faculty approved the report's principles. Following are excerpts from the Wilson committee's recommendations...