Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earlier ones, was a political and military justification that once seemed compelling. And it is a justification which has since dissolved before our eyes. The justification was the assumed existence of a united, homogeneous and militantly evangelical Communism which had chosen South Vietnam as the weak point for a probe. Speaking to the National Press Club some six months after he assumed office, the Secretary of State gave an explicit formulation of the view of the world crisis in which Vietnam played a part. He said...
Nowhere in The Power Elite does C. Wright Mills attempt to probe the arts. He should have tried. The audience which attends these plays constitutes a very palpable elite which, if not synonymous with his own, is at least one aspect of the American power core. According to the Twentieth Century Fund's Performnig Arts: The Economic Dilemma, the national audience for all of the performing arts is less than four per cent of the population, eighteen years of age and older. Although these figures have to be adjusted sightly for the theatre audience alone, the authors (Baumol and Bowen...
Next week, if all goes well, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will launch Mariner 5, a $30 million spacecraft designed to shoot past Venus at a distance of only 2,000 miles and probe the mysteries of the cloud-shrouded planet during its flyby. Whatever its findings, however, Mariner will hardly be able to top the recent accomplishment of astronomers in a plane flying only 37,000 feet above the earth. Using an ingenious scheme and sophisticated equipment, they determined conclusively that Venus is a bone-dry planet devoid of water-and probably devoid of any kind of life...
According to LIFE, which worked on its story for three months, the fees were for questionable services rendered. The article claimed that Long's Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure has been toiling for the past three years at its marathon probe of wiretapping and bugging mainly for the purpose of collecting evidence to absolve Hoffa of his 1964 conviction for jury tampering...
...from his own law firm, one of the six Missouri and Illinois businesses that have made the junior Senator a millionaire. "I have been scrupulous to see that no conflicts of interest arise," he told the Senate. Long claimed that the Internal Revenue Service, a primary target of his probe, was out to "get me" and had leaked the information about the $48,000 payment from Shenker. IRS Commissioner Sheldon Cohen denied the charge, declaring that LIFE had dug up the facts on its own and had come to his agency for confirmation of the payments...