Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kanashima returns to Japan and, as the space race develops over the years, figures out that the U.S. and Russia are bogged down by the problem of how to get the lunarnaut back to earth. Dr. Kanashima surmounts this technological scruple through superior moral force. With the fervor of a kamikaze, he flings himself into the wild blue yonder knowing it will be only a one-way trip...
Compared to his own "burdened" education, Professor Gerschenkron felt that his children's American schooling had been far superior. "I'm a great admirer of good American secondary education. My daughter learned fewer facts than I did, but they learned how to work, and even more important, how to doubt. It's up to the university to fill in the actual gaps, and this is one justification for the General Education and interdisciplinary programs...
...courses, students might include some very narrow departmental courses in their General Education programs. B is sure to be arbitrary and hard to administer, assuming that a decision has to be made on every course in the Catalogue. C accepts in principle that General Education courses are distinctive and superior to departmental courses. D, in addition to the problems of B, allows only as an exception a type of program which for many students should be the rule...
Under certain specifically detailed emergency conditions, the Looking Glass plane would become a crucial factor in U.S. strategy by operating as a relay station that would send messages from superior command stations on the ground to SAC bombers and missile-launching sites. If all or most ground commands were wiped out, the AEAO would take over the direction of a U.S. thermonuclear retaliation. Through a multiple-checked series of authentications, he would break open a locked "red box" and issue the "Go" orders to missile sites and bomber bases that would send nuclear warheads toward preselected targets. Says one AEAO...
...lengthy opinion, Superior Court Judge William Gallagher first seemed to duck the issue by ruling that the suit should have been filed in municipal court. But then he said that the plaintiff was wrong anyhow because the 14th Amendment forbids only state-enforced discrimination in public accommodations. While the state itself may not discriminate against Negroes, he said, the 14th Amendment entitles a U.S. citizen "to discriminate for any reason whatever in his private conduct subject to properly enacted statutory limitations...