Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...return of Pueblo's crew five months ago backed the Pentagon into a cruel corner. Navy regulations and service sentiment seemed heavily in favor of punishing Commander Lloyd M. Bucher, and perhaps others, for allowing the vessel and her secret documents to fall into hostile hands without a serious attempt at resistance or destruction. To most of the public, though, Pueblo's skipper and crew were heroes who had suffered and survived eleven months of North Korean brutality. They were not for hanging. Last week Navy Secretary John Chafee steered between the reefs of opinion and proceeded...
...prelude promised nothing more serious than the latest variation on such nostalgic student pranks as pantie raids and phone-booth packing. A breezy little article in the North Dakota State University newspaper encouraged students to "zip" to the mining town of Zap, N.D. (pop. 300) for a Mother's Day "Zap-Out." Sure enough, late last week columns of collegians began rolling down Zap's unpaved main thoroughfare, their cars emblazoned with signs readiag ZAP OR BUST. Mayor Norman Fuchs, sporting a ZAP N.D. OR BUST! sweat shirt, and some of the townsfolk turned out to offer...
...voters paid close attention. As expected, Gaullist ex-Premier Georges Pompidou led the field, the choice of 42% of those queried. What was surprising was that close behind him, with a hefty 35% of the vote, came Interim President Alain Poher. The showing made the still undeclared Poher a serious candidate who could conceivably outdistance Pompidou in the election set for June 1 - or certainly force him into a runoff. Frenchmen asked to choose only between the two favorites were almost evenly divided: Pompidou got 50.5% of the vote, Poher...
...labor camp. Since then, because of his age, disability and service record-he had risen from private to general in 34 years and was a distinguished division commander in World War II-the government has merely admonished him for his outspokenness. Anti-Soviet agitation, however, is a serious charge. The possible sentence: seven years at hard labor...
Another expert at the A.P.A. meeting pointed out that the way of the unfaithful is smoothed by the diminishing presence of jealousy in marriage. Sociologist Jessie Bernard, professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University, noted that some wives are relieved to find that their marriage is suffering from "nothing more serious" than infidelity. In addition, women are having more affairs of their own, partly because of the liberating influence of the pill and partly because of their growing economic independence...