Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There could be little question about Nixon's abilities-yet they earned him almost as many enemies as admirers. He came to national attention as the House investigator who caught Alger Hiss; for that very achievement, he was to suffer much abuse. As Vice President, he served with energy and dignity, often representing the U.S. abroad with courage beyond the call of duty. In his 1960 drive for the presidency, he began as the candidate of experience, but his once-sure political touch left him and he ran a bad campaign. His worst enemies agreed that he was capable...
...Brown saw another Democrat get licked in an equally fascinating fight for the nominally nonpolitical job of state superintendent of public instruction. The winner was a formidable, get-back-to-fundamentals conservative: zesty Max Rafferty, 46, onetime superintendent of schools in a Los Angeles suburb, whose recent book, Suffer, Little Children, argues in rococo prose that progressive education has led to "slobbism," and who calls for a spartan return to ''sweat, service and sacrifice...
...President Kennedy somberly predicted, would suffer losses in carrying out his decision to force Soviet missiles out of Cuba. And last week came confirmation that the first such casualty was Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson Jr., 35, a U-2 pilot of Greenville, S.C. He was flying a photo mission some 70,000 ft. above Cuba when an antiaircraft missile -made and presumably manned by Russians-knocked his plane out of the sky. He was one of the pilots whose reconnaissance photos had convinced the President that U.S. security was endangered in the Caribbean...
...rise in blood pressure may push more fats through artery walls. If the lymphatic system cannot drain away all this fat from the tissue spaces around the arteries, some of it is likely to be left stuck in the arteries-also leading to atherosclerosis. Most victims of heart attacks suffer first from atherosclerosis...
Martin Luther King knows that in the struggle for justice and human dignity in the South he and his people will commit mistakes and may suffer reversals. But these will not cause them to faint, for, as he says, "Freedom is like life. It can not be had in installments. We have it all, or we are not free...