Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cretan shepherd boy who received his disabilities from a German mine explosion in 1944, Georgakakis uses the tip of his tongue to "read" Braille, got through law school by tape-recording and memorizing 60,000 pages of legislation. Highly impressed by his showing, the bar examiners took an unprecedented step: they urged every imaginable government and business leader to hire the winner at once, declaring that his blindness "bears witness to his exceptional abilities...
They may be ignorant but far from unintelligent. They have worked hard since the day they were born and have met death at every step of the way. They are burdened by debt, unlucky in their attempts to raise chickens or hogs, which are stolen by the government troops or taken as "taxes" by the Viet Cong if they do not sicken and die first...
...that Communism must be repelled wherever it threatens. Goldberg also must try to persuade non-aligned nations as well as America's allies that the President actually is concerned about their carping on the war. This is a pretty difficult chore, but why else would a Supreme Court Justice step down to the U.N. post unless it was a matter of the highest national urgency--and legerdemain...
...next step, as Brown sees it, is a convincing Congressional investigation. Once people are sure that the NSA and the CIA have nothing more to do with each other, he wants to see a "dialogue" on the role of students and a student union in America...
Although member colleges have remained loyal, there is a faction of American students who frankly wish NSA had decided to fold instead. They feel that NSA is a failure as a national student union, and that its dissolution might be a step towards constructing a better...