Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...zone and Hanoi itself have been hit sporadically, with pilots striking only at specific military targets and taking special care to avoid civilian casualties. Understandably, neither aviator favors a bombing pause. Said McConnell: "If you ever release the pressure, they will be just that much better off." The bluntest remark on the subject came last week from Air Force Colonel Robin Olds, 45, the World War II ace who downed four MIGs in Viet Nam: "Good Lord, you've got the best armed services you ever fielded. Why don't you use them...
...also about a citizenry which prefers not to face the horrors. "Strontium-90?" blinks a man-on-the-street interviewee. "That's some kind of gun-powder, isn't it?" The film pans again and again from complacent ignorance to horrible consequence, asking, in effect, after each bland remark, "But what...
Within the Maze. Characteristically, the Beatles are uncomfortable on their pedestals and soapboxes. They have always insisted, as Paul McCartney says, that "the fan at my gate knows really that she's equal to me, and I take care to tell her that." John Lennon's remark that "we're more popular than Jesus," which set off an anti-Beatle furor last year, was not a boast but an expression of disgust. Though he phrased it ineptly, he was posing the question: What kind of world is it that makes more fuss over a pop cult than...
Quoting this recent remark by Poet W. H. Auden, Encounter magazine asked a group of leading intellectuals if they agreed. A surprising number...
Finally, the researchers took reovirus-3, a common cause of respiratory and intestinal infections in man and remark able because its RNA core is normally double-stranded. Unlike the whole vi rus, the purified RNA extracted from it did not cause infections, but it stimulated interferon production within an hour in cells grown in the test tube. The process usually requires five hours with the whole virus...