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...were not exactly encouraging in their reply. Waiting until McNamara had departed, Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu called a news conference to explain that the country already has an inordinate number of men in uniform. Besides, he added, it takes time to train new soldiers, and money to equip them, and Saigon cannot invest either without seriously imperiling its economy. "We don't need a general mobilization," said Thieu. The boys on the motorbikes appeared safe...
...Marie Antoinette and Napoleon to Goebbels and Adenauer. One of the hotel's popular additions is a glassed-in swimming pavilion in the garden, navigable even when winter snows pile up six feet deep. But the main attraction remains the cuisine, a fact that prompted the Riesterers to equip every bathroom with a scale-thoughtfully set back 1 ½ kg. (roughly 3 Ibs.). ¶ San Domenico Palace in Taormina, Italy. A converted monastery, one of its cloisters 600 years old, the San Domenico has been a hotel since 1896. Part of its appeal is the monkish ambiance, part...
...Warren Commission Report, Keating proposed more offbeat investigations. He suggested sending an undercover man to Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish to poke around a rumored "slave camp" for civil rights workers. Not only that, charged a Ramparts man, he even wanted to equip the gumshoe with a hollow heel containing a compass-so that he could find his way back again...
When primitive man found himself confronting a savage beast, according to the great physiologist Walter B. Cannon (1871-1945), his hormone system poured out a flood of adrenaline to equip him equally well for "fight or flight." Now it is known that the hormone system is far more complex. Besides adrenaline, and perhaps more important, there are the hormones produced in the adrenal gland's cortex-hydrocortisone and closely related compounds. And a new study indicates that today's fighting man, far from flooding himself with such hormones in times of stress, actually finds subconscious ways to suppress...
...Citizen" which tried this approach. It never became as popular as the more rigorous Ec 1. Eventually it gained the reputation of being a gut of little substance that the self-respecting avoided. Gill argues that talking explicitly about controversy isn't always the best way to equip students to talk about political problems--"you can't just describe economics--you've got to get down to working those damn curves to understand the problems...