Word: strains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immense technological explosion of recent years has had a tremendous impact on the military, both in hardware and thinking. An even greater strain has been imposed on those responsible for providing the fleet with officers equipped to handle all of the ramifications of the space age. The Naval Academy is desperately seeking to alter its teaching methods and curriculum to meet the challenge. Unfortunately, it has not been able to bring itself to break completely with the traditions of the past, when all it had to do was produce a semiliterate officer well versed in gunnery, seamanship, steam propulsion...
...outset of his piece on "The Administration and the Left" Schlesinger delineates two distinct, historical strains in American progressivism. The "pragmatic" strain "accepts, without approving, the given structure of society and strives to change it by action from within." The "utopian" strain "rejects the given structure of society, root and branch, and strives to change it by exhortation from without...
...jury's two salesladies continued working at night, and most of the others were kept on regular salaries by their employers (in addition to juror's pay of $7 a day for the first 30 days and $10 a day thereafter). Despite the strain of keeping up with the complicated evidence, the hours were not bad-usually 10 to 4, five days a week. Says James Villafana, a night-shift postal clerk: "It was just like a real vacation, and I was able to get reacquainted with the wife and kids...
Spotty by Cities. The geographic spottiness of the outbreaks confused public health authorities, and laboratory workers had the tedious job of identifying submicroscopic viruses in the laboratory to decide which of them were responsible for a particular patient's illness. The Asian A-2 strain of influenza virus has been identified in enough cases to convict it as the chief culprit in North Carolina's heavy outbreak of flu in January. The virus apparently spread to adjacent Virginia and South Carolina, and the University of Georgia had a local incident. Farther west, there were confirmed outbreaks at Great...
Smithies said that he does not expect a drastic change in India's internal economy as a result of the Chinese invasion. He observed that since the economy is already under great strain, it is unlikely that a heavy defense program will be added to the load in the new budget...