Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the vexed outcome of the latest Vance mission, the fact that L.B.J. had chosen him not only to supervise the U.S. Army during the Detroit riots last summer, but to mediate the latest Mediterranean mix-up as well, vouched for the President's trust in the handsome, lanky lawyer. Lyndon has said he would like a man experienced in government to succeed McNamara-and Vance is clearly experienced...
...Chicago's Mather High School, an honors class in physics is discussing the properties of gas. "They mix together," volunteers one student. "They expand and contract," says another. How about constructing a model, suggests Teacher Daniel Cieslik: "Should it look like a big wad of cotton? That expands and contracts." By prodding and questioning, Cieslik eventually gets the class to focus on the rapid molecular motion that characterizes gases...
...tried to get men who disagree both on public policy and internal University matters," Ford explained afterwards. He said he also sought a "good age mix...
...measure of peace and order finally seemed to descend on the island where Aphrodite, the goddess of love, first set her foot on land. Down came many of the roadblocks that had divided Cyprus into warring camps. Sniping incidents declined, and the two ethnic groups even began to mix with one another on a relatively friendly, if cautious, basis. Earlier this month, as a gesture of good will, the Greek Cypriot government of Archbishop Makarios released from prison Turkish Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktash, who had been captured after he secretly smuggled himself into Cyprus...
...cramped facilities and a woefully inadequate budget (?4 million a year), he has tried to put a greater variety of the museum's vast materials before the public. In one imaginative display he arranged finds from the museum's 1963-64 New Guinea expedition into an attractive mix of the utensils of everyday life with elaborate objets d'art. "We endeavor to give a complete picture of a culture-not only the people on top, but through everybody on down as well," he explains. Also successful was a centenary exhibition honoring Karl Marx, who wrote most...