Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meet the quota from their "number ones"--they are then declared elected, and their surplus ballots are distributed to those who are listed second. At the same time, candidates with the fewest "number one votes" are declared defeated; their ballots are also given to their second choice. The process of elimination and redistribution continues--usually for several days--until nine candidates have received the necessary quota...
...indivduals as for epochs the process of aging is normally a quiet and gradual affair, but the realization of youth having passed comes often as not with a suddenness, even a shock. Most of us, I suspect, mark that moment well and often thereafter in idle passages find ourselves touching the wound it left. My moment, and that of many like me, came with the death of Kennedy, and along with the others, I knew it. About the third day of that long, terrible time Mary McGrory said to me, "We'll never laugh again." And I answered, "Heavens, Mary...
...villages that rarely saw a cop in the past. In a direct copy of efforts in Viet Nam, well-armed People's Assistance Teams (PAT) are giving selected villages a measure of protection and some civic-action aid. Other cadres sound out local needs, gathering intelligence in the process. Nor is the government ignoring propaganda: it has put up posters in the Northeast showing Mao Tse-tung and Ho Chi Minh hovering over a map of Southeast Asia, stretching their fingers toward Thailand...
Project Sloop will cost an estimated $13 million, and could take 30 months from authorization through evaluation. If it works, technicians using nuclear devices as powerful as 100 kilotons may some day be able to process tens of millions of tons of ore containing copper that is now beyond man's grasp...
...accused of having stabbed his mother-in-law 105 times. Kessler was asked to leave Downstate Medical School in 1964 because his behavior was noted to be unstable. He has admitted that he used LSD in an attempt to establish that schizophrenia has chemical origins, but in the process, he took a couple of bad trips. In one, "a chair appeared to turn into blood"; after another, he had to be hospitalized for five days, and he remembered nothing of what had happened. Though he did not claim to be on LSD at the time his mother...