Word: establish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Working out of Beirut, Griggs was able to cover the week's events in Jordan and Syria. "The main trouble is knowing whom to believe," says Griggs. "Everyone has an angle and facts are relative at best. Fortunately, after nearly three years here, I have been able to establish a certain reliability index...
...profoundly reactionary answer to the megamachine is to throw a monkey wrench into it and send it down a time tunnel. Go back to Benedictine monasteries, where work was a "byword for zealous efficiency and formal perfection." Discover new prophets of "modest, humane disposition," like Jesus and Confucius. Establish new routines, such as the Hebrew Sabbath that "found a way of obstructing the megamachine and challenging its inflated claims." Abandon the modern constitutional equivalents of ancient kingships and revert to Neolithic culture. In other words, Mumford would perfect man with weaving, pottery and thatched-village anarchy...
...Royal Highness Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands will be at Harvard Wednesday to establish the Erasmus Lectureship on the Civilization of the Netherlands...
...acted well in the crisis so far -- restraining the Israelis, working for time, and gaining support from as many maritime powers as possible. But the Strait must eventually be opened, and the "breathing spell" which the U.S. is now requesting in the U.N. will only allow Nasser to establish his aggression as the status quo. The U.S. should act now, before delay clouds the legitimacy of intervention, or causes Israel to act alone...
What of the Ramparts report of a million child war victims that provoked the formation of the Committee of Responsibility in the first place? The three doctors-Internist Henry Mayer of Redwood City, Calif., Plastic Surgeon John Constable of Boston, and Pediatrician Theodore Tapper of Philadelphia -struggled to establish reliable casualty estimates. They visited 37 of the Viet Nam government's provincial hospitals in three weeks, but in the end could do no better than accept the Vietnamese Ministry of Health's report that casualties are now being admitted to its hospitals at the rate...