Word: mays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...career officer who has seen combat is in fact much more likely than a civilian juror to understand the strain on the G.I.s at My Lai. Professor Paul Liacos of Boston University Law School believes that Galley's fellow officers may well resist pressures from above to make him a scapegoat. Moreover, says Lia-cos, such men are "usually sophisticated compared with most juries, and it is harder to sway them by emotionalism...
Britain's National Health Service offers free medical care from cradle to grave, but increasing numbers of Britons fear they may be in their graves before they reach the end of the interminable queues for services. Seeking an alternative, 2,000,000 Britons now pay for additional private medical insurance. The number has doubled in ten years, and private insurers predict that 5,000,000 people, a tenth of the population of England and Wales, will eventually be covered by their policies...
...bills, he can set the date for his operation and count on getting the surgeon he wants. He will recuperate not in a bustling ward but in one of the 4,398 private beds that N.H.S. sets aside in its hospitals for those willing to pay. He may also receive as many visitors as he wants; in an N.H.S. ward the limit is two at a time for an hour a day. Many privately insured patients undergo operations at the expense of N.H.S., then convalesce in paid-for comfort in one of its private rooms or at a private hospital...
...announcement was truly cosmic. After examining data transmitted from OAO-II, its second Orbiting Astronomical Observatory-which is still functioning effectively after a year in space -NASA this month declared that "astronomers are contemplating the possibility that the universe may be several times larger than previously believed." And how large is that? Some 40 billion lightyears* in diameter, concluded newsmen after talking to NASA. Breathlessly they reported that the most distant galaxies might be twice and even four times as far away as anyone had expected...
...Maarten Schmidt discovers that quasars may be the most distant objects in the universe...