Word: protectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blood will be sent to South Vietnam in the form of gamma globulin which is injected into all servicemen to protect against an epidemic of infectious hepatitis. Whole blood will not be sent to South Vietnam...
Back home in Miami, doctors finally diagnosed a slipped disk, put Pennel into traction, tried to persuade him to undergo a spinal fusion operation. He refused, and last summer he began competing again-shunning practice sessions as a pointless risk. To protect his spine from "jamming," he now lands flat on his back instead of on his feet, uses his elbows to soften the impact. How much longer he can keep on, Pennel does not know. One thing he does know: "I want that outdoor record back, and I'm going...
...collapsible steering column that will help protect drivers from be ing impaled in a collision, and inde pendent front and rear brakes, each capable of stopping the car if the other fails. American Motors, which already provides dual brakes as a standard item, plans to buy the collapsible columns from G.M. and install them in all its 1967 cars. Ford and Chrysler will carry their own versions of the column in their 1967 models...
...NCAA is not trying to show contempt for the Ivy viewpoint on athletics. But unfortunately the Ivy league often looks upon the NCAA with a cynical eye, viewing a as a power-hungry organization eager to harass college athletics. Critics forget the essential role of the NCAA to protect and improve amateur sports for the 645 member colleges. The NCAA has become increasingly effective in curbing recruiting violations, creeping professionalism, a growing television network control over game conditions...
...still asking uncomfortable questions. Oglesby began his speech. Thursday night by exploring the humane, liberal vision which leads good men to wage war in Vietnam. From this view point, we stand as a nation which endured the burdens of the Cold War in the 1950's in order to protect Western Europe and ourselves from the "social acid" of Communism. After 1962, the metabolism of the Cold War changed: for both the U.S. and the USSR, international politics became gradually secularized. The metaphysical became negotiable, the abhorrent understandable, to the extent that we could tacitly accept the Cuban revolution while...