Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disturbingly straightforward ghoul that has merely giggled at the discussion of foreign policy in the last four television debates grew solemn this week. The suspicion that the candidates' impulsive exchanges of facile polemic on complex problems of foreign policy were, at the least, ill-considered, expanded into violent criticism of their stands...
...animal kingdom, Moe, Sally and Amy are junior to the U.S. monkeys Able and Baker, who survived a 1,700-mile space trip in May 1959, but they went farther.*Though they apparently took the trip without noticeable ill effects, scientists plan to study them carefully. Sally and Amy will be mated with Moe, and all three will be mated with other mice. This sort of thing may strike Sally, Amy and Moe as rather tame after all they have been through, but the genetic lessons learned from radiation effects will be valuable for human space travelers...
BIGGEST NUCLEAR PLANT in U.S., which began operating at Dresden, Ill., will eventually produce power at price generally competitive with coal-produced electricity, if research costs are excluded. Built by G.E. for Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co., it generates 180,000 kw. of electricity, enough to light 50,000 houses...
Even in the days before the U.S. Civil War, Vermont's farm-bred Congressman Justin Smith Morrill looked about him and saw an ill-trained nation speeding toward "decay and degradation." His bold proposal: launch land-grant colleges in every state to educate farmers, mechanics and "those at the bottom of the ladder who want to climb up." On a tense day in July 1862-as McClellan frittered away the Union Army at Malvern Hill-Lincoln signed the Morrill Act that gave 17.4 million acres to "people's colleges." So began the biggest effort in the history...
...have a hard time getting experience in the U.S. This fall, besides Millar, Bernstein chose Massachusetts-born Rus sell Stanger, 30, and Israeli-born Elyakum Shapira, 33. All three were in the hall at last week's concert when Bernstein walked offstage and announced that he was too ill to return to conduct the next scheduled work-Schumann's Symphony No. 4. (He was suffering the aftermath of a case of bronchitis contracted during the orchestra's six-week, 20,000-mile summer tour...