Word: happen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secret Service has had to buy two new speedboats to keep up with him when he is at full throttle (four boats in all accompany him). "Here comes Linton" (hill-country pronunciation of the President's name), chuckle the fishermen as the armada approaches, or-if they happen to have blinked-"There goes Linton...
...space themselves several feet apart; Arabs will cluster. In studies conducted on animals, Hall notes that a population crisis occurs when this sense of psychic space is invaded by overcrowding. The birth rate drops and animals die by the score-apparently from stress alone. Something equivalent, suggests Hall, could happen if modern society began to feel itself psychically overcrowded and overstressed...
...Ranger mission was the first to touch down, and relief showed on Johnson's face as he got the news: all were back safely. Then the score from Thailand clattered in. The President exulted: "It's incredible, it's really incredible that this could happen with the loss of only one plane...
...well with L.B.J.'s own insistence on "action, not promises" from recipient nations. "You've got to help other countries build up their independence until they can stand on their own feet," says Gaud. "Sure there are problems involved, but none is as bad as what would happen to them if they lost their independence...
...Says Mrs. Nan Tresilian, proprietor of an antique shop called the Unicorn Gallery, and a leader in the save-the-village movement: "The people most shocked are the American tourists. They come in here with their hair standing on end, asking, 'How could you let it happen...