Word: rare
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Triple A-Plus. Only on rare occasions has Humphrey let slip the merest hint of differences with the White House. Once in a while, his old logorrheic fervor would earn Johnson's displeasure, as when in 1966 he commented on urban riots: "With rats nibbling on my children's toes, I might lead a pretty good revolt myself." He also called for a "Marshall Plan" for the cities when the White House was playing down big new spending programs. But generally he disagreed with few Administration policies. On Viet Nam, Humphrey has pressed for greater social reform, fewer grand search...
...time conversion becomes total on February 15, 1971. The new coins caused a certain initial confusion: some London bus conductors refused to take them, taxi drivers grumbled at the nuisance and shoppers everywhere eyed their change suspiciously. For Americans, at least, the new system will end a rare period of relatively easy conversion: with the pound now pegged at $2.40, the old English penny for the first time equals an American penny...
...microscopic piece of genetic material known as the Y chromosome made headlines last week. It is nothing new or rare; every man has one in practically every cell, or he would not be a man. But a few men have two. Richard Speck is said to be one such; his attorneys are now preparing an appeal against his death sentence for the 1966 slaying of eight nurses in Chicago. Another is Daniel Hugon, awaiting trial in Paris on a charge of having murdered a prostitute. His lawyers contend that he is mentally unfit to stand trial because of his chromosomal...
...above and beyond the competition point is the fact that faculty contact is one of the rare excitements at the Law School, and faculty time is at a premium. To secretly institutionalize informal social contact between students and faculty, and to bestow membership on those students whose gentility will no doubt' profit them, in time, outside the ivory tower, is to taint the ivory tower with a bit too much of the real world...
...year by the Apollo launching-pad fire. But despite the holocaust, and the flawed performance of the Saturn 5 moon rocket three weeks ago, it is still ahead of the Soviet Union's. Engineers now blame the Saturn 5 failures on what appear to be a pair of rare flukes-a leak in a secondary fuel line and crossed cut-off signal wires that shut down the wrong rocket engine. The Russians have no moon rocket to compare with the Saturn 5, which is capable of 7,500,000 Ibs. of thrust. NASA Administrator James Webb believes they will...