Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last boxing event got under way the night of May 5, 1925, the gravelly voice of Announcer Joe Humphreys boomed over the crowd: "Farewell to thee, O Tem ple of Fistiana, farewell to thee, O sweet Miss Diana." He climbed from the ring, sobbing. Next day Lawyer-Statesman Elihu Root and Fight Promoter Tex Rickard stood together bare headed in the rain as a derrick lowered Diana from her pedestal...
Mark of Cain. One root of the problem, Schuman believes, is that young Americans "are raised to believe life is a matter of risk taking." Says he: "Driver training today is as outmoded as the dinosaur; we've got to teach youngsters to live with their cars, to 'cool it.' " The high accident rate and death toll of young male drivers also bothers insurance companies. Richard G. Chilcott, vice president of Nationwide Mutual Insurance, recently suggested that "mark of Cain" license plates be issued to drivers with bad records, restricting them to essential trips. And New York...
...which the wide gap between the economic needs of Vietnam and its programs in the universities is due to the nation's preoccupaiton with war, the shortage of resources, the relative newness of its institutions, or to the academic customs that have been inherited by the country. Whatever its root causes, all Faculties except Medicine, Dentistry and Pedagogy have graduated less than five per cent of their total enrollment. The survey team interprets this as an indication of a waste of manpower, traceable in part to present university policies and programs...
...root cause, of course, is the inability of the country to support needed programs that arises from the underdeveloped nature of the economy and the heavy burdens of war. The leaders of the universities have had their plans curtailed and restricted by annual budget cuts which allow them the means of funding little more than salaries at minimum levels. For fiscal 1967, the University of Saigon requested 250 million piasters and received 168 million (about $141,000 American dollars); the University of Can Tho for the same year requested 474 million pisters and received less than 174 million...
Arsenic, strychnine, phosphorus and thallium salts are effective rat poisons, but far too dangerous where there are children or pets. Probably the oldest of rat poisons is about the most effective and also the safest: red squill, from the ground root of a European plant. Mixed with freshly ground meat or fish baits, it is harmless to children, cats, dogs and even squirrels...