Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the Pentagon was silent about Jackson, would barely acknowledge that he had ever existed. Jackson, now a $90-a-week mail carrier in San Jose, Calif., also refused to answer questions from newsmen. What talking there was came from another ousted Marine officer, ex-Lieut. William A. Szili, 31, a Norristown, Pa., insurance salesman. And Szili, who wants to return to the Marine Corps, told a weird story...
There are signs that the U.S. is increasingly recognizing this, particularly among the no-longer-silent younger generation. Their education has ceased to be a kind of finishing school for "life adjustment," and they seem tough-minded, earnest and determined, without being dull...
Loaded Worms. Early elm-saving sprays used DDT, and as Marine Biologist Rachel Carson recounted with telling effect in her bestseller, Silent Spring, the insecticide got into the soil and was absorbed by earthworms. When robins ate the worms, they died in large numbers. Quickly the notion spread through suburban folklore that any kind of spraying is deadly to all birds, even to squirrels, raccoons and other appealing mammals. Organized resistance to spraying began to appear. In Downers Grove, near Chicago, bird enthusiasts ran a loud campaign. They talked about "birdkill" and hinted that insecticides cause cancer in humans. They...
This spring the fight is hotter than ever. With Silent Spring as their gospel, birdmen are on the march all over the Middle West. But the tree people have rallied too. In spite of spraying, they point out, there seem to be plenty of birds around; and what are birds compared to elms? "In Kansas in August," said one elm lover, "you have to run from tree to tree to keep from getting sunburned to death...
...otherworldly air, that drama is utterly human. Silent, motionless, unconscious, and all but invisible under her surgical drapes, the leading actor is the human patient...