Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that arrived on Special Presidential Assistant McGeorge Bundy's desk came from 127 faculty members of St. Louis' Washington University. It fairly bulged with naive and loaded questions about U.S. policy in Viet Nam. "Who is the enemy?" it asked. "Who are our allies?" "What kind of proof must North Viet Nam provide to convince us that it is not intervening in South Viet Nam?" Is it true that Washington's real purpose "is to provoke China into action which would allow the United States to bomb targets in that country?" As a former Harvard dean...
...witness stand, Mihajlov was just as defiant as he had been in a bitter letter he sent newspaper editors defending himself. He insisted that his article had only mentioned historical facts about Stalin's purges and labor camps. When he offered to present proof, the court refused to hear his evidence on the grounds that "no fresh slanders against the Soviet Union will be permitted." In his final statement, Mihajlov said he would not recant what he had written and added that if the court condemned his writings, "then it means that it condemns history and would define what...
...found absolute proof that there is life on Mars. But impressive evidence has been mounting for years. Among the red areas that give the red planet its name, astronomers can see darker patches that change and fade through the Martian year in a manner that strongly suggests the seasonal growth of vegetation. When the thin icecaps at the planet's poles disappear with the coming of the Martian spring, belts of darker color creep toward the equator, sometimes crossing it. This effect might be caused by some nonliving chemical change under the influence of drifting water vapor, but biological...
Whether discovered by a flyby, an orbiter, or an ABL, the first proof of life on Mars will be a startling breakthrough in man's quest for knowledge. It will be evidence that life is a normal phenomenon in the universe, not just an oddity limited to the earth. And if life has developed on both the earth and Mars, it almost certainly exists on millions or billions of planets; some of its forms must be more intelligent than anything that man can now imagine...
...North Vietnamese to want the reunification promised at the Geneva Conference to take place, and it is obviously in China's interest to back them in this struggle. China may some day turn into the insatiable monster Germany was in the 1930s, but it has not yet, and without proof the United States is not justified in assuming that it will. Like the other super-powers, it wants friendly governments on its borders. Yet there is a difference between this imperialism and the crazed policy of aggrandizement that sent German divisions smashing across Europe...