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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end), it was a painful maneuver, but Johnson managed to hoist himself behind the steering wheel and blithely drove away. After a turn through Johnson City, a quick circle around his boyhood home, and a short spin down an old gravel road, the President hit the main highway and drove the ten miles back to the ranch...
...Union and each of the Houses have kitchen staffs on duty between breakfast and lunch and members of this staff could easily supervise a daily brunch. Restricting the eating area to the small dining rooms or to special sections of the main dining room would minimize additional table-cleaning and maintenance...
Outside of town, meantime, troops barricaded the main highway and waited for the Jordanian soldiers they knew would be rushing over from nearby Hebron. Sure enough, 20 truckloads soon roared into view, slowed down for the barricades and ran into a murderous ambush. Not one truck got through. Overhead, four Jordanian Hawker Hunter jets rushing to the rescue suddenly found four faster Israeli Mirages on their tails; one Hawker Hunter was shot down, the others beat a retreat. Four hours after the invasion began, the Israelis finally withdrew, sowing a path of land mines all the way back...
...first modern work on suicide, by French Sociologist Emile Durkheim, was published in 1897, and is still a classic. Durkheim laid the blame for suicide on the interplay between individual and society. He divided suicides into three main strains: 1) Egoistic, in which the individual is too much on his own, isolated from the community; 2) Altruistic, in which the individual is too little on his own and at the mercy of society, like the Indian wives who committed suttee by throwing themselves on their husbands' funeral pyres; 3) Anomic, in which society's controls over the individual...
...Research Officer Herbert Kinney of the Atomic Energy Commission drove down the gaily decorated main street of Haverhill, Mass., not long ago an uneasy thought struck him. "I have a terrible feeling," he said to an aide "that all these flags...