Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announcing his new budget last week, Feisal promised broad reforms to keep revolution away from King Saud's door. He intends to "make the state fully responsible for the support of the aged, the ill, orphans, and women without means. Soon, all the needy will have enough to save them from shame and enable them to live with dignity." Feisal also proposed new laws guaranteeing funds for the unemployed, free education, and the emancipation of women...
...April last year, after the invasion of Cuba met disaster in the Bay of Pigs, the President used the occasion to propose a voluntary press censorship in the interests of national security (TIME, May 5, 1961). His appeal was not only unnecessary but ill-timed and illadvised. The U.S. press retorted that it was always concerned with the national interest, and coldly rejected his proposal...
Jansky's work was wellpublicized, but it was done during the great Depression, when little cash was available to encourage scientific enterprise. Only a single radio ham, Grote Reber of Wheaton, Ill., followed Jansky's lead. Working alone, Reber built a dish antenna 31 ft. in diameter in his own backyard. With it he made the extraordinary discovery that the sky is full of radio stars that have nothing to do with ordinary stars. Reber had opened wide the radio window on the sky. His crude radio telescope, the world's first. now stands at the entrance...
Most psychiatric investigators of these drugs have not, themselves, had the experience, or else they experiment with ill prepared subjects and poor settings. They find little in the way of positive results because they don't know what to observe. But those scientists who have taken the drug themselves and listened to their subjects' descriptions end up with the awesome conclusion that they are dealing with an indescribably powerful tool. But then, what to do about it? If you announce your discovery you're in trouble. If you discuss it quietly with friends you have a cult...
...Dean Monro is apparently the focus of pressure exerted by persons alarmed by rumors about drug usage at Harvard. We understand Dean Monro's desire to pacify worries about undergraduate activity, but we believe he is ill-informed about the effects of these drugs...