Word: givens
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Miscalculations of the rival's intentions are common. In 1960, there was fear of a "missile gap." In 1965, the U.S. concluded that the Russians had given up quantitative arms competition, only to see them spurt forward later. And before leaving office, McNamara acknowledged that, overall, the U.S. had spent too much on weaponry during his tenure because of mistaken estimates of Russian intentions. However, the Russians have accelerated their buildup, tripling their supply of land-based missiles in little more than two years. The U.S. remains ahead in overall nuclear-delivery capability, but Russia continues to close...
...anonymous donor has given the Harvard Undergraduate Council $800 to hire two students to plan and conduct a fund-raising drive. The HUC hopes the drive will elicit $7000 from alumni who were active in student government while they were at Harvard...
People are now witnessing with their very eyes the fact of black youth finally given a half of a chance at education and jobs and being able to make exotic formulas for bombs and napalm as well as anyone else. As a result of all of this, I think the present set-to might be the last go-round for white supremacy psychological theory...
...groups. We have some rather learned men in our area who believe that English-Americans are atop the pyramid of abstract learning abilities with Welsh, German, French, Belgian, Norwegian, Swiss, Finnish, Danish and Swedish occupying the next nine rungs in the order listed. After the top ten have been given their just due, these gentlemen give a smattering of attention to the rest of the world...
...Schaefer of the National Institutes of Health and others at the Universities of Florida, Western Michigan, etc., who are fastening on early infant stimulation and teaching as the key to agility on standardized tests. (The problem of course may be in getting the Schaeferites to join with the Jensenites given the Klan types who have embraced the latter as their own.) Schaefer has already published some fine results of efforts with black children...