Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trip this year to the Soviet Union. "I have reason to believe," he said, "that the Soviet leadership would welcome my visit to their country-as I would be very glad to do. I am hopeful that before the year is out this exchange of visits may occur." At his press conference next day, the President did not elaborate, but the word from the White House was that talks are going on at the ambassadorial level, both in Washington and Moscow. As of last week, it appeared that the Soviets were agreeable to a visit, perhaps this summer...
...inadequate achievement. Others, the report states, could be educated more profitably at one of their local institutions, especially at the undergraduate level where the problem of "clustering" of foreign students at a few well-known institutions. Twentyfive per cent of all foreign students at a few well-known institutions occur...
...Crashes occur when the skier is trying to do something that is too difficult and too fast for his capabilities. Obviously, it is necessary to know what skiing involves before you take to the slopes. Fortunately, there are many simple booklets available to the novice and he should read some of them at the outset of his skiing career rather than while he is waiting for his broken leg to heal...
Last year Burchinal's staff presented for J.C.S. decisions some 1,600 studies. Matters for the Chiefs' consideration range from the trivial (whether to authorize an all-service soccer team to play European allstars) to the monumental (contingency plans for response to Communist aggression wherever it might occur). Such studies are presented to the Chiefs at meetings held three afternoons each week in a second-floor Pentagon room that is commonly known as "the Tank...
Perhaps the most baffling thing about emphysema is that it resembles the normal effects of aging. Even in healthy men, the lungs lose some of their stretch with advancing age. Emphysematous damage to some part of the lungs has now been found to occur in a majority of men over 60, whether or not they ever complained of shortness of breath. It is more common among men than women, more common among smokers than nonsmokers, and particularly evident where there is severe air pollution...