Word: sures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what? Lose? What we're darn sure going to lose is all national honor if we can't recognize our mistake and quit fighting just to "save honor...
...general agreement that arms reduction would be wonderful (see p. 21). Georgy Arbatov, head of Moscow's Institute of American Studies, put the issue in perspective: "As long as the U.S.A. has superiority over the U.S.S.R., it is considered that everything is all right. For Americans are sure they are the good guys, intending no harm to anybody. But I assure you that we in the Soviet Union also consider ourselves the good guys and feel not very comfortable if the opponent stubbornly strives for superiority." Just who is trying for nuclear supremacy is of course debatable. But Arbatov...
...activity that seems to refresh his spirit. He engaged in his first wholly partisan political stumping since he took office. Campaigning for Republican gubernatorial candidates in Virginia and New Jersey. Nixon mentioned the war only once -and that was to tell an airport crowd in Morristown, N.J., to be sure to listen to his speech this week "on that particular matter...
...overall balance, the U.S. is still well ahead of the U.S.S.R. in its ability to deliver strategic weapons (see chart). American nuclear-missile submarines and H-bombers vastly outnumber their Soviet counterparts. To be sure, the larger average size of Soviet warheads gives the U.S.S.R. an enormous lead in deliverable megatonnage, but whether that is an advantage is debatable. There has long been dispute over the relative efficacy of big-yield weapons v. larger numbers of smaller warheads. The Soviet fondness for monster missiles worries some American strategists, who feel that the U.S.S.R. could eventually use them to wipe...
...fall of 1884, when he heard that dinosaur remains had been discovered in a stone quarry near Manchester, Conn., Yale University's Othniel Charles Marsh, a pioneering paleontologist, rushed off to see for himself. Sure enough, there were the fossilized bones of a small (7-ft.-long) creature that was later identified as Ammosaurus major, an inhabitant of the area 200 million years ago. But Marsh was already too late. The dinosaur's front half had already been carted away; the brownstone in which the fossils were encased had been cut into blocks and cemented into...