Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Betsy's 90-mile-wide eye passed over New Orleans, nearly half of which is below sea level. Canal dikes burst, sending cascades 8 ft. to 14 ft. deep through the streets. Army and National Guard amphibious craft cruised about picking up trapped householders from roofs and attics. One man paddled to safety girdled by an inner tube. Telephone service and power distribution blacked out. Scores of boats, from big freighters to cabin cruisers, ran aground or broke up. As the floods receded, they left a soggy jumble of ruined cars, fallen trees and utility lines, splintered glass...
...Isadore Dyer, a chief of obstetrics at New Orleans' vast Charity Hospital: "If between 10% and 20% of the women who contract the disease in those first three months are going to have babies with anomalies, it seems rather drastic to destroy the other 80% or 90% to guard against this." Other physicians take precisely the opposite view. Dr. Daniel G. Morton, obstetrics chief at the University of California Medical Center in Los Angeles, states frankly: "Therapeutic abortions have been done here for German measles and other reasons." Among the "other reasons" accepted at many medical centers are rape...
...with the Student Revolutionary Directorate, which claims wide underground contact inside Havana. On July 27, goes the story, Castro was returning from Santa Clara in a motorcade, and had just reached Havana when a group of "workmen" along the road whipped out guns and began firing away, killing a guard and a chauffeur. In some versions, Castro was wounded; other versions...
...again with more than 300 million checks. It stores $51 billion in cash and securities in 15 vaults beneath Fowler's office, and each week routinely refinances $2.2 billion of the federal debt. The Treasury mints and prints the nation's money, has 88,000 employees, directs the Coast Guard, and, next to the FBI, runs the biggest law-enforcement enterprise: the Internal Revenue Service sleuths, the Narcotics Bureau, the Customs Bureau and the Secret Service...
Died. Clarence James Brown, 72, outsized (257 Ibs.) and outspoken Old Guard Republican Congressman and top G.O.P. member of the Rules Committee, who at 26 started out as Ohio's Lieutenant Governor, went on to Capitol Hill in 1939 where he waged a desk-thumping campaign against Big Government from the New Deal through the Great Society; of uremia; in Bethesda...