Word: ende
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neat rows on the field where their unbeaten football team fought its way to the mythical national championship last fall. State police and Secret Service men surveyed half-filled rows of seats unsmilingly. Agnew stressed the progress America has made in the last 50 years. "I see no end to progress so long as there is freedom for every voice to be heard," he said. Distantly heard, as he spoke, w,ere the chants of 100 radical students. Closely watched by police, they were picketing outside the stadium, carrying a Viet Cong flag and shouting, "Hey, hey, U.S.A., how many...
Beneath a green and white candy-striped tent at the north end of the enormous grassy playing field that forms the main quadrangle of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., 18 students and faculty members in flowered sarongs and silken blouses prepared for a Javanese gamelan concert. They tuned and positioned a wondrous, gleaming assemblage of brass gongs, chimes and metallophones with ivory-colored resonators, all mounted on red lacquer and gilt frames with extravagant carvings of dragons and other beasts. Students, some barefoot, bearded and in jeans, crowded around with fascinated families or strolled the vast green...
...Within the next year," said Thompson, "some of us will die, others will be maimed, in a war which has been declared a mistake. And yet it continues. The war must end now, and the fight for our cities, for our nation, for our people must begin." As their degrees were awarded, some of the new Yale graduates released helium-filled blue balloons that soared into the June sky; Thompson's somber message would not disappear so easily...
...beginning of the end for rubella came in 1961, when two groups of investigators, one headed by Dr. Thomas Weller at Harvard, the other led by Dr. Paul D. Parkman at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, isolated the virus and devised ways of cultivating it in the laboratory. Parkman and a fellow pediatrician, Dr. Harry M. Meyer Jr., subsequently teamed up to attenuate or "tame" the virus so that, in a vaccine, it would cause no disease but would still trigger the making of antibodies and thereby produce immunity. Their strain, which was dubbed...
...agonizing time immediately before death. "This period," he says, "is still an unknown entity from the psychological point of view." Even so, he may have made some unexpected progress. With life rapidly slipping from her, an old Italian woman called to a nurse one day. "It is the end, isn't it?" she asked. The nurse nodded, sat next to the old woman and held her hand. "I don't want to die alone," the old woman said. "You won't be alone," the nurse replied. Ten minutes later, the old woman's labored breathing stopped...