Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defense budget's most elusive variable is the war in Viet Nam. The conflict is now costing around $2 billion a month, up 100% in the past year. One item alone, the amount of aerial ordnance unleashed over North and South Viet Nam, is already equal to the World War II level, and has surpassed that of Korea. The U.S. has lost 560 planes to date (427 over the north, 133 over the south), more than its worldwide losses in wartime 1942. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara recently ordered 280 new fighters at a cost of $700 million...
...summas are given only to students with the highest grades, and magnas and cum laudes are awarded more on the basis of theses and generals than on grades. It would, however, move at least 50 students from Groups II and III up on the draft rank list and an equal number from Group IV down...
...Minuteman ICBMs, which can take off in 32 seconds, 54 Titan II missiles, which carry considerably more megatonnage than the smaller Minuteman, and 608 sub-borne Polarises-1,602 birds in all. With additions already under way, the flock will soon total 1,720 and pack a combined wallop equal to 1.8 billion tons of TNT, more than half a ton for every human being on earth. Nonetheless, the U.S. is planning yet another expansion of its missile arsenal...
What kind of person is likely to enjoy a trip on LSD? Only the extravert, Alabama Psychiatrist Patrick H. Linton suggested last week at a regional meeting of the National Association for Men tal Health. Dr. Linton gave equal doses of LSD-25 to 14 mental patients, all men, half of whom were introspective and trying to avoid contact with the outside world, while the other half were outgoing, eager to meet people and to talk about themselves. The results were astonishingly uniform...
...gargantuan fare of yesteryear is hard to digest, even in imagination. First to use an element of scientific method in home cooking was Mrs. D. A. Lincoln, whose 1883 Boston Cook Book introduced accurate measurements, explained, for instance, that a piece of "butter the size of an egg" was equal to 2 oz., or one-fourth of a cup. But it remained for one of her students, Fannie Farmer, who borrowed freely (and without credit) from Mrs. Lincoln, to make her precepts into national guidelines with The Boston Cooking School Cook Book, published...