Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Assuming, though, for the sake of discussion that a newspaper could afford to hire a newsroomful of Norman Mailers, then could provide space for an 84,240-word report on the two conventions written to fit the monthly deadline of a magazine, there remains at least one more problem. What if a reporter launches himself into a "subjective" account that doesn't seem "true" to whoever is entrusted to pass judgment upon truth and rightness? And if the reporter has aligned himself with the "wrong" side, who is to decide that this is so? The logic in attempting to provide...
...last week. South Viet Nam's President and Vice President were seen in deep conversation in the corridor that separates the "Thieu wing" from the "Kywing" of Saigon's Independence Palace. Said Ky to an aide: "What can I do? I must accept this reconciliation for the sake of the country...
Although the purpose of vaccination against German, or "three-day," measles is to protect pregnant women for the sake of the unborn, the plan is not to vaccinate women.* Instead, public health officials hope to stamp out rubella by vaccinating children; thus, as they put it, "drying up the reservoir" of susceptible subjects who spread the infection. Some time in their lives, most adults have had a touch of rubella with no ill effects, and are now immune...
...Andrea Girard) and the people around them during their brief years in Washington. The story picks up round about 1960 and inches through the primaries and the election, breeding along the way several sluggish subplots. At some indeterminate date, the book leaves what may for simplicity's sake be called historical fact and concentrates on 1) the tragic illness (leukemia) of the President's little daughter, 2) the marital difficulties of one of the invented characters, and 3) a civil rights demonstration in Alabama. There is no assassination in Dallas; possibly Rennert is saving this for a sequel...
...political and not a moral act. But it is a myth that in this election one can have political impact only by voting for Humphrey, Nixon, or Wallace and it is a myth that by refusing to support one of them, a voter is sacrificing political influence for the sake of a clear conscience...