Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quickly to see that more Negroes will be recruited into the National Guard-as urged by his new Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, which reported that Negroes number only 1.15% of the total Army Guardsmen-and directed that the organization be better trained in riot control, his general reaction was one of unhurried stoicism. Accepting a bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln from an Illinois group, he observed mildly: "We have been experiencing some of the same problems Abraham Lincoln did 100 years ago. We hope and pray that we can handle them with the compassion and wisdom that...
...steel. In effect, it can be stretched like Silly Putty or molten glass 2½ to 4½ times as far as present-day high-strength steel without fracturing its molecular structure. More important, when TRIP steel eventually reaches the point of crack-inducing stress, a solid-state chemical reaction is triggered that blunts small cracks just as they begin, then fills them in to prevent major wounds. The chemical change precipitating this "self-healing" process takes place on a near-atomic scale, and can be observed only with the aid of an electron microscope. The actual halting and filling...
...opened its new boutique, "The Hardware Shop," and is urging its customers to "show their metal." On the same nuts-and-bolts theme, Bonwit Teller in Chicago is boasting that one of its belts, an Yves St. Laurent creation of plastic and gold-colored metal, is "causing a chain reaction...
...Deeper Problem. When translated excerpts of the new catechism were first read to the Pope, his reaction was apparently tolerant and understanding. But since preparations had been made to publish it in six other countries, the Pontiff feared that widespread distribution would make it appear that the catechism had official Vatican approval. In June the Vatican insisted that all translations be suspended until they had been cleared by a special committee of six cardinals. Although the other foreign publishers are still awaiting clearance, French and U.S. publishers last week were going ahead, but were prepared to include any revisions...
...Mayer found that obese girls ate less than normal-weight girls of the same age and height. But the obese girls expended only one-third as much energy. Mayer agrees that obesity has no single, simple cause; such hereditary factors as metabolism and body build, as well as reaction to stress, are also involved. But there is one universal way to control obesity-exercise...