Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dark skin that usually, though not invariably, characterizes members of the Negroid race may also be a protective device. If man was first born in tropical Africa, as some anthropologists now suggest, then it is possible that his skin, whatever color it may have been to begin with, took on added pigment-again, starting with chance mutation-as a screen against harmful radiation from the sun. It is a fact that Negroes seldom have skin cancer, though its incidence is rising noticeably in the white population of the U.S. The same pigment, by filtering solar radiation, impedes synthesis of vitamin...
...says that "participation in a 'debate' over racial differences in intelligence, ability or achievement potential is not participation in a scientific debate at all. It means lifting in the public eye the status of studies otherwise disqualified and rejected by science." Interpreted one way, such studies apparently suggest that the U.S. Negro is inferior to the U.S. white. On IQ tests, he generally averages 15 to 20 points lower. The results of World War I alpha intelligence tests have frequently been cited as evidence of the Negro's mental inferiority, since the Negro soldier invariably ranked below...
...said that students could suggest other topics in addition to those the Institute supplies...
Author Yanovsky, 60, a Russian emigre physician and writer of seven novels published in Western Europe (this is the first to appear in the U.S.), seems to suggest that modern technological man has lost meaningful continuity with the broader patterns of human destiny. Yanovsky puts force into this familiar proposition by his crisp, evocative writing and the persuasive allure of his slightly disturbing Utopia. At the end, he sends Cornelius back to the village to take up life there as if he had never left. It is a neat finish for his tale, but, alas, he has left the reader...
...after making his comment, Romney appeared in Washington, where newsmen gave him a chance to get off the hook by asking whether he might have been misunderstood. "I was not misunderstood," he snapped. "If you want to get into a discussion of who's been brainwashing who, I suggest you take a look at what the Administration has been telling the American people." With that, he whipped out a newspaper clipping in which Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara was quoted as saying, just before the 1966 election, that draft calls might be cut the following year. "The information...