Word: safes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope of ending all this, India has struggled ineffectually for years to promote family planning. The rhythm method proved too complicated for a 75% illiterate population. To help women keep track of the days of the month, the government devised a handy string of beads (green for safe days, black for unsafe). Children upset the arithmetic by toying with the beads. Some women mistook the strings for a charm against conception; others shunned them because they resembled the necklaces Hindus hang around the necks of cows as decoration. Other methods-even the pill-proved too costly or required too much...
...been tested since February, and if something did go wrong, there would be no time to correct it because it would take 24 minutes for radio signals traveling at the speed of light to make the round trip between Mariner and the control station. Just to be on the safe side, JPL control sent a series of four last-minute direct commands to back up the programmed instruction. It was the first time the lab had talked to its ship in five months, and Mariner answered like a good...
Editor Gandar, who has been threatened many times before by the government, is not especially perturbed. Under the Prisons Act, he is safe from prosecution so long as he can verify his facts. He is sure he can. He is now collecting some affidavits on prison conditions from other ex-convicts and preparing further exposés. "We have opened up a chink in the curtain of secrecy surrounding our prisons," he wrote in an editorial last week. "We are now going ahead to bust it wide open...
...Peru, one of the really hopeful countries in the hemisphere (TIME cover, March 12), seemed safe from the Castroite threat. The country's economy is strong, and President Fernando Belaúnde Terry has been adding new roads, schools and communications lines in the interior to reduce the backlands poverty and remoteness that breeds revolutionaries. After last week's bombings, Peruvians were jarred into a sharp new awareness that they are not immune...
...Those men giving their lives in Viet Nam desire peace as much as any one of you who are safe and sound in the U.S. But they realize that peace and freedom are not possible for that little country or for the world as long as Communism is what it is today...