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...rays. Only neutrinos will reach the tank's supply of perchlorethy-lene, a cleaning fluid containing about one quarter of chlorine 37. Dr. Davis estimates that out of the countless trillions of solar neutrinos that will be passing through the tank, between four and eleven per day will react with chlorine 37 atoms...
...implication was that if President Kennedy had been shielded or thrown to safety on the floor of the car in the 5-sec. interval between the two shots, he might have survived. A Secret Serviceman, trained to react quickly in such emergencies, might have done just that had he been stationed close enough to Kennedy. One agent rode in the front seat of Kennedy's car in Dallas, but there was no way for him to scramble back to the President's aid in time. Kennedy himself had always objected to agents flanking him closely (particularly when campaigning...
...husbands react to this new restlessness? Fewer and fewer seem to be grousing about the idea of a tired businessman coming home to a tired businesswoman. "In only one or two cases," says Anne Cronin, "have husbands gotten stuffy about their wives' going back into careers. For the most part, they're serious and understanding. We're not breaking up any homes that wouldn't break up anyway...
...Negroes react to this sort of charge the way all parents do when their kids are criticized. In central Harlem, where some children are a year behind in third grade and most are three years behind in eighth grade, civil righters say that "the schools are manufacturing retarded kids" and blame white teachers who give up too easily (only 8.3% of all New York teachers are Negro). In the typical view of the Rev. Milton Galamison, the problem is "low expectancy on the part of middle-class teachers whose concept of a human being is not met by these children...
After the outbreak of fighting, developments were rapid. The United States agreed to provide, on credit, whatever materials India requested: "Washington may be slow on broad policy decisions," Galbraith observed, "but the Pentagon, if necessary, can react very rapidly." He pointed out that India asked for aid on a Monday, and by the following Saturday, plane-loads of supplies had begun to arrive on a regular schedule...