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...Howard will speak the following night on the general problem of civil rights and segregation. Howard, president of the Mississsippi Council of Negro Leadership, will deal largely with pressure on individuals who attempted to get the Negro to exert his right to vote...
...good or ill, Signor Gronchi's views are sure to exert more and more weight on Italian policy at home and abroad in the next several years. This veteran politician and spokesman for the Christian Democratic left, whom the late Alcide de Gasperi deeply mistrusted, refuses to be a ceremonial figurehead of state. Despite constitutional limitations, he has jockeyed himself into a position where, as President, he can make or break Premiers almost if not quite in the manner of the absolute monarch...
Both systems must exert their influence while the missile is still in the atmosphere or the motor is still thrusting. In space, with the rocket cold, a ballistic missile is as independent as an asteroid. But another guidance problem remains. The missile ascends toward space nose up and cruises toward its target around the curve of the earth. Thus, in natural flight it will re-enter the atmosphere more or less broadside on. This is undesirable; so a "positioning device" must be provided to turn its nose toward its target. There are several possible ways of doing this, such...
...Goebel indicated two years ago that he would investigate General American's operations in his state, General American Director Connie C. Schuchard went to Kentucky and, charged the suit, "hired John A. Keck, a district judge of the state . . . and Wade Hall, an insurance man, to exert their political influence in order to prevent Commissioner Goebel from making said examination . . . For their fraudulent acts . . . Keck was to be paid $100 per month by General American and Keck and Hall were both given a ... territory in Kentucky . . . from which they were to obtain . . . a percentage of all the business written...
Since both hormones and aspirin have proved effective remedies for arthritis, super-aspirin backers claim that the two together exert a synergistic effect on patients, i.e., produce greater benefit than the sum of each used separately. But 1) the evidence for super-aspirin's synergistic effect is questionable; 2) aspirin can be taken safely by almost any patient, while hormones are suitable only for some patients. Cortisone, ACTH, prednisone and other hormones sometimes produce such undesirable side effects as peptic ulcers, edema, mental disturbances and high blood pressure...