Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the Knife. De Gaulle had known since December that he needed the operation, but kept silent and refused to change plans for his Mexico trip. One day last week he tape-recorded a 17-minute TV speech. When the speech was broadcast that same evening, De Gaulle watched himself, seemingly vigorous as ever, calling the U.S. an "uncertain" ally and proclaiming once more France's need for an independent nuclear deterrent and its own costly program of foreign aid to underdeveloped nations. Then, with Madame de Gaulle, he was driven without escort through the dark and rain-washed...
...another successful book, The Edge of the Sea, and though painfully shy lectured widely. Then, about six years ago, her old friends Stuart and Olga Huckins complained that anti-mosquito spraying had damaged birds in the two-acre nature sanctuary that they maintain near Duxbury, Mass. Thus was born Silent Spring...
...nature of the world-the very nature of life." Dramatically, she pictured a time when the sprays, dusts and aerosols used to control insects, fungi and other foes of plant life would "still the song of birds and the leaping of fish in the streams," finally bringing on the silent spring of her title...
Cool Consideration. Nonetheless, Silent Spring was a runaway bestseller and an extremely effective polemic that stirred fierce argument, from village councils to the halls of Congress. Laws were proposed on local, state and federal levels to put rigid restrictions on the use of pesticides. Some of them were so sweeping that if they had been passed and enforced, they might very well have caused serious harm. In advanced modern societies, agriculture and public health can no longer manage without chemical pesticides...
Earlier in the day, Catherine D. Williston, associate dean of Radcliffe, told the RGA that the Administration's decision to keep silent does not preclude action by the RGA. Dean Williston said she saw no reason why faculty members of the RGA could not vote for such action...