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...well-oiled Democratic machine in Providence that saved Tiernan by delivering him a 6,700-vote plurality in the city wards within the district. Even so, in Democratic Rhode Island, it was clear that the nationwide Republican resurgence of last November was as potent as ever...
Terror Campaign. Since rural Vietnamese, like most rural folk everywhere, tend to be hostile to all big-city folk anyway, such repression of local expression for years provided the Viet Cong with a potent rallying cry. Until now, the successor governments to Diem in Saigon have done little about it. It is clear from the Communists' frantic response that they consider the local elections a major threat. They have begun a country-wide campaign to intimidate candidates and voters alike. Already they have killed two council candidates (one was gunned down last week only ten miles from Saigon...
...injuries have transformed the once potent staff into one big question mark...
...think Chiang Kai-shek is one of the most abused and misused men of modern history ... I think if Red China is recognized, you will have a potent Chinese minority in every Asian country who will turn to Peking and no more look to Washington." (Design for Dedication...
Half a dozen of the most potent drugs used by physicians have been known for years to cause changes in the chromosomes in some of the body's cells, with the parallel risk that they might also cause genetic defects if the patient later became a parent. Up to now, such drugs have been used only in the treatment of advanced cancer, so the danger to children has been minimal. But last week, in the journal Science, a team of researchers at the State Uni- versity of New York in Buffalo reported that LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), the favorite...