Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along with the lull in the fighting came a frantic flurry of diplomatic activity. At the United Nations, in London, Cairo and Belgrade, statesmen scurried about in quest of the magic formula to end the war. Among the few whose efforts deserved notice was veteran U.S. Ambassador-at-Large W. Averell Harriman. Returning to Washington from a "vacation" in the Soviet Union, Harriman advised the President that Russia's leaders "sincerely wanted peace," but could not be counted on to take any initiatives to settle the Viet Nam war. "I don't know whether they have any influence...
...about to sign-designating next Sept. 13 as World Law Day-Was in the great-significance category. The proclamation, said he, "expresses something of the greatest importance about the purposes of the American people and the purposes of the American nation. And that is our commitment to, and our quest toward, a world where all men may live in peace with the hope of justice under the rule...
...fifth of Britain's 53,000-man Army of the Rhine. Nearly everyone was mad at France for its recent announcement that it will not participate in next year's "Fallex" exercise to test the Alliance's communications. NATO's burning issue remains the quest for some form of nuclear sharing, whether Britain's ANF proposal, the U.S.-German MLF scheme or De Gaulle's NON! Above all, NATO is exercised over De Gaulle's threat to pull France out of the Alliance entirely in 1969, when the treaty expires...
...pitiless onslaught. The purpose of such demolition is not to clear the way for a pure and total science of society. Aron sees society as far too complex and changing to allow for any general theory valid for all times and places; he conceives of science as a quest, not a set of laws, and tries to define the different logics of behavior which operate different sectors of reality (economics, International relations, etc....) Aron recognizes that the relations between sectors are the most difficult to account for; he states that science in human affairs cannot predict or guarantee the solution...
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...