Word: shifted
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Cataclysmic Collision. To determine the actual deceleration rate of universal expansion, Allan Sandage, of the Mt. Wilson and Palomar observatories, and other astronomers have been plotting graphs of the brightness of both nearby and distant galaxies versus their red shift.* From the resulting curves, they have approximated the deceleration of the galaxies as they recede from the earth. If his data is correct, says Sandage, galaxies have been racing away from each other for 10 billion years or so, but are slowing down rapidly enough to bring them to a halt in another 30 billion years. From that time...
Even as Washington and Hanoi conducted the delicate diplomatic exchanges that could lead to negotiations, the U.S. last week announced a major shift in the strategy of the Viet Nam war and named a new commander to carry it out. The strategy, set forth in his first press conference by Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, is a decision by the U.S. to turn the war gradually over to the South Vietnamese and to give them the firepower and backing to wage it effectively. The new man in Viet Nam is General Creighton W. ("Abe") Abrams, 53, who will succeed General William...
...reason for the shift in emphasis back to ARVN is that Hanoi has proved able to match the U.S. buildup through proportionate infiltration into the South, and that President Johnson has concluded that total military victory in Viet Nam is not possible at an acceptable cost in men or years. The result is a fundamental decision, reached in the past several weeks during a post-Tet "A to Z" reappraisal of the war by the Administration, to get the South Vietnamese ready to fend for themselves, as they would have had to do sooner or later. The decision was made...
...general who will preside over this shift is a tough, plain-speaking New Englander and onetime tank commander who could inspire aggressiveness in a begonia. Retired Army General Bruce C. Clarke, who commanded Abe Abrams in World War II, bluntly calls him "the No. 1 fighting general in the Army." Moreover, Abrams will have the advantage of knowing ARVN better than any American in Viet Nam ever has. The South Vietnamese are unlikely to be able to put much over on him, or promise what he knows they cannot deliver. And by temperament and the terms of his new assignment...
...foreign invasion has indeed caught Detroit with its prices up. In the late 1950s, U.S. carmakers met the same challenge by introducing compacts, but prices and sizes for those models have risen sharply, resulting in the same old problem. Volkswagen, with its new "automatic stick shift" that offers the driver a choice of changing gears or not, now ranks No. 3 in sales behind the big Chevy and Ford models...