Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House's, and when all five of his fellow Senators on the joint conference committee opted for the House bill, Kennedy defied tradition by warring on the conference committee report. The Senate backed him, 55 to 22, a notable personal triumph. Yet he made no enemies in the process. "He isn't sneaky," says one of his adversaries. "He isn't a wise...
...moderate civil rights organizations. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People called Stokeley Carmichael's kind of Black Power "racism in reverse." He deplores the attitude of the black radical fringe, which has lost all faith in the democratic process, and is convinced that it must be scrapped. "I can't help viewing the unilateral black philosophy as being as open to question as the unilateral white system," he says. But Wilkins takes an entirely different attitude toward the more respectable approaches to black consciousness, pride and influence and points...
...turn their attention to solving another radiation-belt enigma: although one out of 20 particles in the solar wind is a positively charged helium nucleus, or alpha particle, only three can be found for every 10,000 particles in the outer belt. "For some reason," says Van Allen, "the process that pulls electrons and protons into the magnetic field seems to discriminate against alpha particles. We hope to find...
...From the building came the sound of an internal-combustion engine. Exhaust vapor escaped through a pipe in the roof. Neighbors deduced that they were building a secret racing car; the Gens boys insisted that they were merely enlarging their basement. They were indeed digging-straight down. In the process, they were uncovering one of the most important Roman relics ever found in Germany: the funeral monument of Lucius Poblicius, a 1st century veteran of the Roman legions and citizen of Cologne...
...therapeutic overtones in this case. Chappaqua is Rooks' autobiography, the story of a 27-year-old alcoholic and drug addict who enters a private Parisian sanitarium to take a cure. The film juxtaposes the reality of the sanitarium, its doctors and attendants, with Rooks' drug hallucinations during the tortuous process of the cure, also with memories of past drug visions while still a full-time addict...