Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sophisticated as they are, Mariners 6 and 7 will at best be able to determine only the possibility of life on Mars. Their cameras, which can pick out features twelve times smaller than Mariner 4 could see, will nonetheless be unable to distinguish objects less than 900 ft. across. Says Robert Leighton, a California Institute of Technology physicist who is in charge of Mariner's TV experiments: "At the worst, we should be able to kill a lot of old legends about the dark lines being canals carrying water from polar ice caps to oases in the desert...
...these operations this year may be performed in private hospitals and nursing homes, the rest are imposing a heavy burden on NHS gynecologists. They find themselves spending half their office hours passing judgment on patients seeking abortions and half their operating-room time performing them. This, say some gynecologists, is not the type of practice that they chose or for which they were trained...
...about pot, concluding that medical evidence is lacking about marijuana's harm to normal people. He cites unpublished research that suggests that LSD may be no more dangerous genetically than caffeine, aspirin or other drugs. But he warns against "street drugs" with their impurities, has little good to say about amphetamines, inveighs against fad diets and fasting and harangues his readers to get VD checkups. Freedom demands responsibility, he says, so: "Do your thing-but only if it does not harm yourself or others...
When French universities erupted last year, the usually inflexible Charles de Gaulle startled many Frenchmen by declaring that he understood why the students wanted more say in their affairs. Last week Richard Nixon (who, ironically, was about to visit De Gaulle) took a very different approach toward campus disorders in the U.S. Despite his trouble establishing rapport with young Americans during his campaign, the President tackled dissident students head on. In a publicly released letter, he lambasted demonstrators in general, giving no hint of any distinction between their valid and invalid aims...
Dashes, asterisks and euphemisms are still the way out chosen by most editors. But "if the image of the word is already formed in the mind of the reader," says John Seigenthaler, editor of the Nashville Tennessean, "you might as well use the word. We have the responsibility of getting over to the reader exactly what was said. We should say what we have to say in this society and say it accurately...