Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foreigners can and should expect the U.S. to rise far above its present status as the world's most violent advanced country. Among industrialized countries, Canada's homicide rate is 1.3 per 100,000; France's is .8; England's only .7. Within the U.S., the rate typically surges upward from .5 in Vermont to 11.4 in Alabama. In some Northern ghettos, it hits 90, just as it did some years ago in the King murder city of Memphis. Texas, home of the shoot-out and divorce-by-pistol, leads the U.S. with about...
While breathing their reclaimed air and drinking their reclaimed water, the students (who are being paid $3 per hour for their trouble) are performing other duties that will give space scientists an insight into the behavior of crews on long space missions. Each man is assigned daily make-work chores, such as reading instruments, following instructions radioed in from outside and manipulating controls. At regular intervals, they take one another's pulse, respiration and blood pressure or enter a medical instrument unit that enables physicians outside the cabin to perform a remote-controlled medical checkup...
...members of the student crew-who range in age from 21 to 28, have about the same physical and psychological qualifications required for astronauts-go to extreme lengths to avoid boredom. They have practiced script-lettering and speed reading (one has progressed from 350 words to 4,400 words per minute), passed questionnaires and notes in bottles to the experiment team outside, and performed trumpet and harmonica duets...
...form the Harvard Draft Union, there were tangible signs that a broad based. campus anti-draft campaign had begun. The Draft Union would offer Harvard students a positive way of responding to the prevailing national mood of crisis. A CRIMSON poll had shown that as many as 22 per cent of the senior class were ready to flee the country or go to iail rather than serve in the armed forces. In other words, the potential for resistance was there...
...when the national mood seemed glummest, the Draft Union was having trouble getting through to people. "Most seniors still don't believe that they will be drafted after graduation," sophomore Barry A. Margolin, undergraduate coordinator of the Union, said recently. "Seniors think their draft boards are different-but 70 per cent of them are going to end up in Vietnam." The psychological impact of recent events has been to confirm these seniors' hopes of legally avoiding the draft. The immediate threat now seems less dangerous...