Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sensational publicity about LSD has let up somewhat, it is possible to assess the phenomenon more calmly. LSD is certainly not the means of instant, universal bliss that its most extreme and most ludicrous proponents make it out to be. Nor is it an indication of diabolical decadence or proof that, as Critic Leslie Fiedler predicted some time ago, the U.S. is changing from a "whisky culture to a drug culture." But LSD is considerably more than a mere...
...National Review. Dick Gregory is not the only one who finds Buckley intellectually irritating but personally irresistible. Fans of Buckley's new Firing Line show include a lot of liberals, and so many viewers that his 13-week contract was renewed six weeks after he started. Further proof of his appeal is that within two months his local Manhattan series has gained TV syndication in seven other cities...
...wife to death? No one has ever proved that the press actually swayed the jurors who found the osteopath guilty in 1954 and sent him to prison for life. But last week, upholding Sheppard's bid for habeas corpus, the Supreme Court said that "inherently prejudicial publicity" was proof enough that he "did not receive a fair trial consistent with the due process clause of the 14th Amendment." In an 8-to-1 decision that forced Ohio to promptly retry or free Sheppard, the court wrote a key chapter in the growing conflict between the rights of the press...
...dual braking system, with two hydraulic fluid lines instead of one, so that emergency braking power remains if one line is damaged. The Senate Commerce Committee is close to approving legislation that may make other safety features mandatory on '68 models, probably including headrests and rupture-proof fuel tanks...
...things, that anyone can be President. The evidence of this is rich -and, in this Republic, richly satisfying. He did not go to college, and entered the country's highest office unable to spell: "demigog" was one of his better guesses in the spelling department. His instincts remained proof against the presidency. When the new state of Israel, grateful for Truman's immediate recognition, ceremonially bestowed on him a copy of the Torah, Truman's response did great credit, not to a chief of state, but to the Anyman he was. Said he: "Thanks...