Word: ende
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...V.N.A.F is turning in propeller-driven A-1 Skyraiders for twin-engine A-37 jet attack planes. The 524th, or Thien-Loi (Thunder) Squadron recently went operational in A-37s at Nha Trang airbase, and two more squadrons of the jets will be flying by year's end...
...problems is that the end toward which all modern societies, whatever their ideology, seem to be moving is the beehive model, in which the total system perfects itself as the individual is steadily dwarfed. All modern societies, capitalist or Communist, are moving toward ever larger and more inclusive systems of organization, toward ever greater dominance of the system's purposes over individual purposes...
...free to use the show as a device to 'push for new standards.' " The response, CBS claimed, was a refusal to provide tapes of new shows in time to meet contractual deadlines. As a result, CBS announced the termination of the show this month, at the end of its third season. The CBS charges, retorted Tommy, were all "manufactured," and so was the rationale for the cancellation. "They waited until just now so it would be impossible for us to get on another network next year because their programs are already filled...
Karp soon regained consciousness and obeyed commands to move his hands and wiggle his toes. Next morning, with a breathing tube removed from his throat, he said a few words. His wife Shirley issued an appeal for a heart donor. At week's end, though no donor was yet in sight, Karp was holding up well and Surgeon Cooley was standing by, eager to remove the artificial device and replace it with a natural heart...
...change makes sound religious sense. To the believing Christian, death is a moment not of annihilation but of resurrection, when a soul's turbulent earthly journey comes to a happy end in eternal life. American Protestant funeral rites traditionally reflected this belief in such comfortable old favorites as the 23rd Psalm ("The Lord is my Shepherd") and the promises of Jesus ("I am the Resurrection and the Life"), at least until the more unctuous funeral-parlor euphemisms began to avoid any confrontation at all with the idea of death. Roman Catholic rites, on the other hand, were infected...