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...inflicted on them in Lebanon and their increasingly exposed position, quite a few of the Marines are less than enthusiastic about sea duty. Says Lance Corporal Tom Auld of Pittsburgh: "I'd rather stay on shore here than spend a long time steaming around in circles." An understandable qualm perhaps, but it would be difficult to imagine more confining quarters than the bunkers into which the Marines were driven while trying to keep the peace in Lebanon...
...hill. In Los Alamos, the holistic weapons careerists in the cafeteria choose beansprouts and yogurt and reject actual nuclear war as theoretically implausible. It is downright rude in Los Alamos for an outsider-or even an insider-to raise questions concerning war or peace. The first causes moral qualm, the second unemployment...
...serious qualm for Jackson is the stress that a campaign would put on Jacqueline and their three sons and two daughters, who range in age from seven to 20. Although he has a $52,000 salary from Operation PUSH and is paid up to $2,000 for some of his speeches, Jackson has no real financial security. His three-story stucco house in a black middle-class section of Chicago needs painting. He owns only three suits and two pairs of dress shoes. His car is a black Buick station wagon. Despite his showy public style, he leads a rather...
That year Tito proved his loyalty by swallowing without a qualm the Nonaggression Pact between Berlin and Moscow. As Tito explained: "We accepted the pact like disciplined Communists, considering it necessary for the security of the Soviet Union, at that time the only socialist state in the world." When Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, Moscow issued orders for all-out resistance to the Germans, who two months earlier had conquered Yugoslavia. Within days, Tito had established the General Headquarters of National Liberation Partisans' Detachments-taking the name "partisans" from the irregulars who had operated behind...
...colas but of the letters. Their conclusion: Pepsi's test was invalid because people like the letter M better than they like Q. Chicago Marketing Consultant Steuart H. Britt theorizes that Q is disliked because of the number of unpleasant words that begin with Q (quack, quitter, quake, qualm, queer...