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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...service will include Buddhist prayers, readings from Ghandi and Martin Luther King, and the handing in of an anticipated large number of draft cards, according to Ferber. Dr. William Sloan Coflin, chaplain to Yale University and a leader in the anti-draft movement, will deliver the main address of the service...
...gradually ceding to him some of the broader, extraconstitutional powers that Ky demanded in return for accepting the No. 2 position. One main Ky assignment will be chasing crooks. Says Ky: "During the next four years, I will devote myself to cleaning the house; otherwise, with corruption rampant in the army and administration, we will get nowhere." With that, he ordered the arrest of the province chief and two aides in the coastal province of Binh Dinh on charges of pocketing $134,000 intended to reimburse local peasants whose land had been expropriated for a U.S. air base...
...cholestyramine resin particles latch onto bile acids in the intestine and cause them to be excreted, the body's automatic governor reacts to this loss by telling the liver to make more bile acids. To do so, the liver uses cholesterol already in the body as its main source of raw material, thus reducing the stored cholesterol. By parallel mechanisms, cholestyramine also appears to reduce the absorption of fats into the blood and their deposition at various sites in the body, including artery walls...
...Corcoran's Smoke is plywood also, but even in that form it took a lot of effort. For the past two months, three to seven workmen have been saw ing, painting, sweating and swearing in the museum's basement and on the main floor. Slowly the massive open construction took on the shape dictated by Smith's original small-scale cardboard model; each part was hinged together to form a baroque network of flowing spaces, held together primarily by tension and hauled into place by hoists. Now installed, the full-scale model cost $6,000; a metal...
Another reason for the decline can be traced to the salmon's itinerant habits. Bristol Bay red salmon, the most lucrative catch among Alaska's five main species, roam far afield during their five-year life cycles; for two years after spawning they take off on a 6,000-mile grand circle tour of the north Pacific before they swim back to mate and die in the same streams where they were born. Though international fishing treaties preclude other nations, notably the Japanese, from fishing closer to Alaska than 175° west longitude, the fish themselves cross that...