Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nose count rather than rely on the arithmetic of White House lobbyists. "I'm not moving," Mills vowed to a friend, "until I've got the votes." Last week Mills moved, winning passage of a slightly amended version of the original measure by the ready, mistake-proof margin of 217 votes...
Defiantly rejecting the "intemperant utterance" of Russia's Aleksei Kosygin, who preceded him in the rostrum, Eban spelled out the actions of Moscow and the Arab states themselves as unassailable proof of who was responsible for the Mideast war. Rather than accept Israel's "sovereign right to existence," Eban said, the Arabs adopted a "doctrine of 'day-by-day military confrontation.' " Rather than working for peace, Russia "has for 14 years afflicted the Middle East with a headlong armaments race." Eban read off the deadly catalogue of Russian arms that had been delivered to the Arabs...
...Israelis were not the only people who seemed to be studiously ignoring De Gaulle's advice. The Soviets scorned his appeal for a four-power conference on the Middle East. The U.S. spurned his counsels on Viet Nam. And then Red China unexpectedly exploded an H-bomb, ample proof that it had moved itself far in front of France in the nuclear sweepstakes...
...stick to it. At last week's A.M.A. meeting, the Executive Committee on Diet and Heart Disease reported after a long-term pilot project involving 2,000 men aged 45 to 54 that it was indeed possible. The next step, said the committee, is to seek more conclusive proof by enlisting up to 100,000 men aged 40-59 in a new, $50 million study...
...work for major U.S. law firms. Instead, he wants to serve a term as an assistant U.S. or state attorney in California. Concluding his valedictory address, Joe said: "Do not look for love, tragedy or trauma to explain this change. It was simply resolution from within"-and, he added, proof that "in America such things are possible." As he told a TIME correspondent last week, while studying for the California bar exam: "Many people say the U.S. system is a fraud. But this country is fair and generous. It comes closest to satisfying man's ideals...