Word: normale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eckstein points out first that with the war in Vietnam raging, the non-Vietnam military budget today is, by normal standards, an austerity budget. All military construction in the U.S. has been stopped. Pay-increases to military personnel have been deferred. There have been surprising declines in contract awards to aerospace industries and other businesses, Eckstein notes. The procurement of the Minuteman-three has been postponed for eleven months. In addition it has been officially announced that the extra $3 billion of Vietnam spending in the current fiscal year will come entirely from the reprogramming of non-Vietnam military expenditures...
...Tired Children" [Nov. 6, 1964] prompted me to try subjecting chicks to continuous TV. After eight weeks, the birds seemed to be addicted to whatever was showing, and their eyes were markedly abnormal: 20% larger than those of birds reared under continuous incandescent light, and over 30% larger than normal eyes. What this exposure did to the chick's psyche I cannot say, but the experiment certainly cut down on the viewing time of the humanoids associated with the project. Perhaps you overstate the case when you suggest that most TV fare is geared to the mental level...
...enjoyed the article about Dr. Perell's tipsy technique for retarding early birth contractions [Feb. 9]. I have used the same delightful method through three pregnancies and produced three lovely normal children. In fact, I get stoned the minute the rabbit test comes back positive...
...door very often? What is he doing in these offices?" she quotes J.F.K. Johnson, she says, asked her: "Be a good girl and see that I get invited to all the meetings in the White House." She observes that he wasn't, noting that in addition to her normal duties, one major task was to keep explaining to L.B.J. that, for security reasons, he could not ride in Kennedy's plane...
...power holder in Thailand's military regime, General Praphas Charusathien, with an excuse for postponing elections due this fall. Ordering Thai newspapers to print the grisliest photographs taken during the Tet offensive in Viet Nam, Praphas asked: "Is it not better for us to safe guard a normal situation than for these pictures to become facts in our own country...