Word: mid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issued at the rate of about 160 a week. In addition, there is a special quota for Pakistani and Indian refugees from East Africa, where black racist regimes are discriminating cruelly against residents of Asian ancestry. Commonwealth immigration has dropped from a total of 471,400 between 1955 and mid-1962 to 271,200 during the following five and a half years...
...final, Nayar defeated Terrell, but only after Terrell had mounted his most serious challenge to Nayar's long-time domination in their personal direls, Terrell suffered cramps mid-way through the third game and was unable to stretch his leg muscles. After trailing 2-1 in games, and 10-2 in points, he made a brilliant comeback, only to lose in five games...
Leading Dartmouth is Alex Winn, a mobile, good-shooting forward, boasting a scoring average in the mid-20's. Against Connecticut, Winn had 38 points to pace the Indian victory. But his 28 points weren't enough to overcome Penn, which bested Dartmouth in an overtime clash the night after the same Quakers topped Harvard by seven...
...consideration about the volunteer army is that it could eventually become the only orderly way to raise armed forces. The draft, though it will prevail by law at least through 1971, is under growing attack. In the mid-'50s, most military-age men eventually got drafted, and the inequities of exempting the remainder were not flagrant. Now, despite Viet Nam, military draft needs are dropping, partly because in 1966 Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara started a "project 100,000," which slightly lowered mental and physical standards and drew 70,000 unanticipated volunteers into the forces. Meanwhile, the pool...
...show the barren landscape flashing by only 70 miles below, then seemingly reversing in a dizzying maneuver as the capsule rolls into a new attitude. In other color shots, inside the cabin, viewers can see dimly the astronauts shooting pictures out of the window, a flashlight hovering weightless in mid-cabin and finally twirling into place after being nudged by an astronaut's hand...