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Word: existing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matched only by the rising curve of paranoia. Already, the jungle that is the U.S. city is so crisscrossed with fear and alarm wires that the following account of a day in the life of a fictional citizen of a composite U.S. city, based on security measures that already exist, is entirely within the realm of possibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Long Day in the Frightful Life | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

Although an onslaught of astronaut sniffles and sore throats at Cape Kennedy last week delayed the orbital flight of Apollo 9, an unmanned spacecraft named Mariner 6 was successfully launched from a nearby pad. Its ambitious mission: to search for evidence that life can exist on Mars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planetary Exploration: Looking for Life | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

...also not clear that it would really make much difference if somehow genetic distinctions did exist between white and black minds. As one of Jenson's respondents--psychologist Lee J. Cronbach of Stanford--puts...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: Black IQ's | 3/6/1969 | See Source »

...fact, whatever, genetic differences exist may be nothing more than the artificial products of oppression by a dominant society. Jensen himself admits that assortative mating--marrying at one's own level of mental ability--tends to raise the general level of intelligence by inbreeding genes which produce success. If social circumstances prevented a group's members from choosing their own marriage partners, or prevented the valuing of intelligence, environmental factors could have artificially depressed the natural level of intelligence in the group's population. Relieving those oppressive circumstances would, of course, permit readaptation and a return to parity...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: Black IQ's | 3/6/1969 | See Source »

...Handbook) to Inman Square, the reviews ranging from the adequate to the abysmal. Fortunately, that stage has passed and as it presently stands it is much closer to being a justifiable publication than it ever was before. It is still by no means certain that it will continue to exist, or even that it should, but its chances are now improved for several reasons...

Author: By Jerald R. Gerst, | Title: Something Happened | 3/5/1969 | See Source »

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