Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prime Ministers of many of those nations were present last week to help the mother of parliaments celebrate her 700th birthday in Westminster Hall. Led by House Speaker Sir Harry Hylton-Foster, in full-bottomed wig, black court gown trimmed in white lace and silver-buckled shoes, speakers from 41 Commonwealth legislatures entered the cavernous, 11th century hall to a flourish of trumpets from the scarlet-clad Grenadier Guards. Then came Britain's Lord Chancellor, his robe brocaded in gold, at the head of a procession of Commonwealth legislators, lace jabots at their throats. Next came the plumed platoon...
Died. Claud H. Foster, 92, Ohio inventor and philanthropist, who in 1911 patented the first practical automobile shock absorber, netted nearly $10 million selling the device to Detroit's automakers before he sold his company to Otis & Co., investors, for $4,000,000 in 1925, whereupon he retired to a $3,500 bungalow on Lake Erie, emerging in 1952 to host a huge dinner party at which he distributed $3,879,700 to 16 charitable and educational Cleveland organizations because "too many institutions get their money from dead men"; of cerebral arteriosclerosis; in Bellevue, Ohio...
...limit on diversity also constitutes the danger of the magazine's future. The introduction speaks of desire to "foster awareness and scrutiny of the variety of...opinion among the Negroes of our generation." Yet while the journal reprints an Esquire piece denouncing the fate of a Negro in an Ivy League college, it has failed to reprint the original piece praising the relative degree of humanity a Negro may find at Harvard...
...hold on. He gave up two singles in both the seventh and eighth innings, but escaped both times. The Crusaders' Bill Sexton and Jim Gravel led off the ninth with identical singles into left, but as a mob of three Harvard pitchers began to warm up, Kevin Foster popped up a bunt attempt to McCandlish. Pinch hitter Earl Kirmser then grounded an instant double play ball to third: add Houston and stir. And the game was over...
These three themes run through the entire work. The first, deterrence, is the main subject. The McNamara doctrine of deterrence replaced the Eisenhower strategy of unleashing nuclear holocaust if the enemy crossed a line drawn by John Foster Dulles with a strategy of graduated response. If, for example, the Soviet Union misreads American intentions as it did in Korea, the U.S. is now prepared to meet Russia with conventional weapons first instead of immediately blowing both civilizations off the map. If the Russians were still unconvinced, tactical nu- thermonuclear responses ranging from "counterforce" (against Soviet missiles) to "countercity" (self-evident...