Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Modern times have placed new emphasis on the P.O.W. In wars gone by, a man taken prisoner was considered to be out of the war. Often enough, he was killed on the spot; if he lived, he was often mistreated. As far as his superiors were concerned, he had proved himself on the field; they were happy if he did not defect to the enemy. But in this century of total war, the prison camp has become an extension of the battlefield. Totalitarian nations are not content merely to extract information from a P.O.W. They often hound and harass...
...airlines flying to Cuba, only Mexicana, Iberia and Air Canada have I.F.A.L.P.A. pilots. In any case, the Cubans have so far been careful to free skyjacked planes and passengers after no more than an overnight delay. The airlines and electronics firms are working on weapons-detection systems to spot armed passengers during boarding. One company has developed a device that it claims can distinguish a gun or knife from other metal objects, at a cost of under $1,000 per installation. While each skyjacking costs an airline around $8,500, the carriers are reluctant to spend the amount necessary...
...enough to ride the fringes of the foreign trend. To insure their quality, the boss himself acts as an official taster. Recently he solved one executive problem by making a rather deft change. Parents and even schoolchildren had written in to complain about the company's shrill radio spot ads, in which a child cries, "More Parks Sausages, Mom!" That has since been modified to "More Parks Sausages, Mom-please...
...proposals for community involvement come in sharp contrast to the innocuous pose of portions of the Wilson report. The dubious social morality of some of the companies Harvard has invested in--including the notorious Mississippi Power and Light--has long been a sore spot for both blacks and whites here. In combination with "discriminatory hiring and real estate policies," the report says that these investment practices make black students feel that "Harvard is uninterested in the 'morality' of its operations." The report's recommendation that Harvard use its fiscal might "to create an environment in which racial justice prevails...
...Although spotted fever may prove fatal if not treated promptly, it can almost always be cured with antibiotics (chloramphenicol or the tetracyclines) if diagnosed early enough. The trouble, say Murray and his colleagues in the New England Journal of Medicine, is that most doctors in the East are not alert to the danger. Unless they happen to spot the palms-and-soles rash, they are likely to misdiagnose the disease and treat it with sulfas or penicillin-both of which seem to make it worse. Lives can be saved, they say, if doctors will look for the distinctive signs, especially...