Word: occured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statistic in a confidential report prepared for the Federal Aviation Agency was enough to shake even the most seasoned air traveler: during the average 24 hours, eight near misses occur between planes in flight over the U.S. A near miss means that two planes came so close that they would have collided if one pilot or the other had not detected the danger and taken action to escape...
...swatter. In these persistent reports about espionage and sabotage, is he delicately telling us that he isn't up to the job, that Red spies are running loose despite his best efforts? If in fact we are as infested with these rascals as Mr. Hoover intimates, it might occur to many people that the country needs a more efficient spy swatter. There is, Mr. Hoover says, an advance detachment of Communists within our borders with the 'capacity to pervert our thinking and destroy the spiritual supports which form the foundation of our freedom.' This is sententious poppycock...
...Church down to the most remote parish everything of importance has been in the hands of the clergy." Callahan points out that Pope John XXIII, in his preparations for the Second Vatican Council, appointed a preparatory commission to discuss the role of the layman-but it did not occur to Rome to name representatives of the laity to the commission, and no Catholic layman will participate in the deliberations of the council...
Oddly enough, the technical weaknesses of the picture occur in just those areas where this sort of film usually never misses: in some of the "crowd" scenes, it is all too obvious that the same hundred or so people are parading back and forth before the camera; and the same "Somewhere in the Castle" set is used over and over again, for what are supposed to be different" somewhere...
Authoritative library officials denied, however, that Lamont will become co-educational as early as January of 1963. They predict the switch over will occur closer to the end of the two year period...