Word: questionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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China's Communists are not much noted for a sense of humor, but there must have been at least a glimmer of a smile when they elected a former U.S. Air Force colonel as an alternate member of the party's Central Committee. The colonel in question is Dr. Chien Hsueh-shen, a product of M.I.T. and Caltech. Chien, who was commissioned in the U.S.A.F. during World War II, headed a missile-research team in Germany at war's end. In 1955, he was expelled from the U.S. as a suspected Communist. Since then he has made...
...really people; they're troops. They aren't even dead men; only body counts. And the degree of deadness isn't always too bad; sometimes it's light or moderate instead of heavy. We'll stick it out because it's a question of honor and thank God we only hear about it once a day, and then it's quickly followed by some broad telling you how groovy some gasoline is and how you can get laid practically as much as you want...
Reducing the Rate. The answer to the question of why babies die is that the techniques and knowledge that exist are simply not used in many cases. Dr. Mary Ellen Avery, the new head of pediatrics at Montreal's McGill University, said that the application of knowledge that is now available would reduce the infant-mortality rate in America by 50%. That would give the U.S. the lowest rate of any major nation. It now ranks 14th, behind New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Scandinavia and most other countries of Western Europe...
...Gaulle. Now, without his formidable non, talk of devaluation of the Continent's weakest currency has assumed a new tone of inevitability. Even the West Germans seem ready to assist in a broader change of currencies by increasing the value of the robust mark. The only real question in France is when and how much...
...other strong currencies-the Swiss, Dutch, Italian and Belgian-would also rise slightly. As Strauss told TIME'S Ball: "We know perfectly well that the D-mark is undervalued against certain currencies, but this is not the case against certain others." Officials of most of the countries in question disagree...