Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sorbonne and annealed during the French Resistance, cannot accept the shape of the postwar world. When Dienbienphu falls, she exults, although the fallen are Frenchmen. The U.S. is decadent and bent on war. Russia is interested only in world peace, and fills the sky with Sputniks in proof of its military superiority, which will keep the peace. Pope Pius XII dies, and Mile, de Beauvoir, who renounced God at 15, accepts the news "with a certain amount of pleasure...
Liquor stores and bars have begun to demand a Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverage Control Board Identification Certificate before they will serve marginally legitimate customers. The Certificates became available May 1 and already the Varsity Liquor Store will accept no other document as definitive proof...
...Certificates were authorized by the General Court last year and are available locally from the Cambridge License Bureau in City Hall. Liquor stores still have the option of requesting proof of age but, as in the past, they risk a $500 fine and the possible loss of their license by serving minors...
...spokesman for the Hasty Pudding Club said the Certificates will be required "eventually." The Yard of Ale, however, plans no change in its policy of not serving questionable customers at all. "As long as the burden of proof is on the establishment in this state," the manager said, "we won't serve anybody who doesn't look like he's 21, no matter what he's got in his wallet...
...Wonderful Why. Science has gone far toward delineating the probable nature of the universe. It has even pried into the mechanism by which the human brain thinks. But beyond this, says Bush, science cannot go. It offers no proof, "it does not even produce evidence," on the two vital realities of man's being, his free will and his consciousness. Thus those "who follow science blindly come to a barrier beyond which they cannot see." They end "where they began, except that the framework, the background, against which they ponder is far more elaborate, far more probable than...