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...defense of U.S. purposes and policies. The objective, he said, is not "the occupation of all South Viet Nam or the hunting down of the last armed guerrilla" but rather the nation's independence and freedom from attack. An ancillary aim is to discourage future Communist attempts to swallow "weak nations which are vulnerable targets for subversive aggression-to use the proper term for the 'war of liberation.' " The importance of the conflict can be measured in part by the fact that "it is considered so important by the other side...
...Waldo dies "of spite like a boil burst at last with pus." Arthur flees the house, returns after three days, and is mercifully committed to the local asylum. It remains for the twins' twin dogs to prove that Waldo, if slightly incredible, is edible. Hungry dogs will swallow anything...
Clearly, the board will have to surrender some of its power. This may be a bitter pill to swallow, especially in public. But for the sake of St. John's more than 13000 students, the school's reputation and the reputation of Catholic education in general, it will have to be does...
Puff, Puff. Idaho's Frank Church insisted that South Viet Nam was experiencing an "internal revolution," even though North Vietnamese troops were present, just as the U.S. experienced an internal revolution, even though there were "French revolutionary soldiers at Valley Forge." Rusk found that comparison hard to swallow. "I can't identify for a moment," said he, "the purposes of the Hanoi-inspired revolution of the 1960s with the purposes of the American Revolution in the 1770s...
...small quantities from tropical plants. Then Dr. George Rosenkranz, at that time a Syntex research chemist, found that the Mexican yam, or barbasco root, yielded much larger amounts of diosgenin. In 1951 Syntex's Dr. Carl Djerassi first synthesized from it female sex hormones that women could swallow. Later it was discovered that the hormones were effective as an oral contraceptive. Syntex then began selling the compound to other drug firms, later introduced its own pill. Both Syntex and Searle now obtain their diosgenin from Mexican yams, which grow wild in the jungles. Rosenkranz, now Syntex's president...