Word: normalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lawyer Sidney Dickstein argued that the court could find "social importance" merely by reading the testimony of assorted literary eminences. While conceding that Liaison was "vulgar" and "sophomoric" ("But that's no reason to put a man in jail"), Dickstein called Handbook "useful" to women "whose normal sexual drives beset them with anxiety...
Chopped Down. The proposed merger by stock swap, which must be approved by the stockholders and will probably receive more than the normal amount of scrutiny in Washington, is the work of Harold S. Geneen, I. T. & T.'s hard-driving president since 1959. When he took over I. T. & T., Geneen boasted to a group of Wall Street analysts that the then ailing giant would become "one of the most important companies of the next decade...
...alleviate the silence, Houston also began piping background music into Gemini 7 on a radio band that would not interfere with normal voice communications. Some of the popular tunes, like Fly Me to the Moon, seemed more appropriate for the Apollo program, others for a teen-age hangout. But later in the week, largely at the urging of NASA Secretary Geri Ann Vanderoef, the Kraft Music Hall, as it was called in honor of Flight Director Chris Kraft (TIME cover, Aug. 27), took on an elevated tone with selections from Bach...
...soft, dark grey substance that geologists call "quick clay" is composed primarily of small flaky particles and a great deal of water. It contains very little of the electrolytic salts that tend to bind normal soil particles together...
...selective service board of appeals in California has refused to reverse the 1-A classification of a Harvard undergraduate, despite a letter from the University informing the board that the student is carrying a full course load and making normal progress...