Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maniac. Determined to show that the U.S. means business, the Planning Committee endorsed McNamara's suggestion for a limited call-up of air units, and decided to take the matter to the United Nations. Johnson also appeared on a nationwide TV hookup to explain the Reserve mobilization-as had Kennedy when he called up the Reserves for the 1961 Berlin confrontation and the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. In a somber three-minute talk delivered hurriedly and rather flatly, he pledged that "we shall continue to use every means available to find a prompt and peaceful solution." But he also...
...survived beyond puberty; most are in institutions. All are boys, indicating that the enzyme defect is transmitted, like hemophilia, through the mother on an X chromosome, although she appears unaffected. Researchers at the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases checked to see whether the same enzyme deficiency could explain typical adult gout. It does in only a few cases, they reported last week. In one family, two gout victims have only about 1% of the normal PRT; in another family, it is about...
...second main objection to the poll is more obvious. Percentages given were not of the total number of people who answered the poll, but of a slightly smaller number who answered the question being referred to. This should explain what appeared to be numerical miscalculations of about one per cent...
Harvard believed, however, that the draft was not a major factor in the increase. "If the draft were a factor, it would be easier to explain a decrease in applications rather than an increase--unless people perceive that deferments may be given to students in education...
Were the recent indictments of Spock, Coffin, et al part of a coolly calculated policy? Or an act of desperation? Or both? Let me suggest a context which may explain why the government chose this time to prosecute some articulate and famous spokesman from the draft resistance movement...