Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Byrd* was defending himself against charges that, as chairman of a subcommittee investigating welfare fraud in the District of Columbia, he was plucking bread from the mouths of women and children. As Byrd's probe ended last week, it was apparent that some of those women and children had been eating pretty high...
Perhaps a man's faith in the afterlife necessarily falters the moment he starts seriously to probe the origins of the concept among the primitive men of 30,000 years ago, who provided their corpses with weapons to see them through death's terrors. Obviously the idea of heaven had a rise in evolution's slow periods-and, battered by the investigative fervor of science, has it not had a fall too? In a new book that attempts to survey the history of man's conception of destiny, a British cleric and scholar raises this question...
...Soviet scientists had attempted a similar feat two days earlier, failed. Last week tracking stations picked up three of the Russian rocket components orbiting the earth; the fourth burned up in the atmosphere. The previous Soviet Venus probe in 1961 suffered a radio communications blackout after 18 days...
...Washington, D.C., management consultant. The Philippine government gave its approval. But President Macapagal was not finished with the Lopez brothers. Fortnight ago, the government brought charges of personal income tax evasion against both brothers and accused Fernando of illegal interests in government contracts. Last week Macapagal ordered a probe of the profits the Lopez brothers made in the sale of Philippine Planters, and levied a $347,580 back-tax assessment against the company, which the Lopez brothers are to challenge in court. To the wonderment of Manila, wealth and influence no longer seemed to be an automatic guarantee of immunity...
...negotiate on Chinese terms stimulated cries of "appeasement" against Nehru's government. Attacks on Defense Minister Krishna Menon for his recent breakfast dates and cocktail party nattering with Chen Yi in Geneva have been stepped up, even though Nehru claimed that Menon was only acting under orders to probe China's real intentions in Ladakh. But Menon's contention that Ladakh was only "unoccupied territory" and Nehru's stance that he would be willing to make "minor" territorial concessions to the Chinese have raised fears in Parliament that India will yield on China's terms...