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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military aim of this conflict (as opposed to the social aim) is to kill or capture the enemy. Whether this is done by dropping into his lap Napalm, a thousand pound bomb, or an 8 in. artillery shell leaves a very slight difference...
Visits to Aunt Magda. In Bulgaria, 19% of all cars on the road are chauffeur-driven, and Poland has 27,000 chauffeurs for its officials. All of the thousand or so cars with curtained windows that bump along Albania's dusty roads are government-owned, usually contain bureaucrats and their drivers. Even the tiny Czechoslovakian veterinary service has somehow managed to acquire 900 chauffeured cars. As a sop to socialist equality, the bureaucrat often rides in the front seat beside his driver, who is nonetheless expected to hop out and open the door for him. Throughout the East bloc...
...prison, they've done a lot and grown up an awful lot. I've seen lives change in days. Some come out of prison raring to go. One guy was in jail for 14 months, was out less than a day, dropped by our office, picked up a thousand leaflets, and left to hand them...
...named Janice, aged 47, who was particularly eager to have her palm read. I soon found out why: the life line on her right hand, and on her left, stopped abruptly at the age of 50. I was astonished, for this occurs in about one case out of a thousand. I asked her how her health was, and she replied, "It's all right." Not contented, I pursued further: "Do you have any trouble with your health?" She said, "Well, I do have extremely high blood pressure." "Do you drink?" I asked. "Man, I drink like a fish...
What bothered all the panelists was the problem of supply. Though there are 500,000 adults in the U.S. dying each year of coronary disease and 6,000 to 7,000 children dying of incurable inborn heart defects, there is no prospect of more than a few thousand hearts becoming available. The pressing question, therefore, is how will these be allocated? Dr. Barnard was not worried by the chance of having two or more patients at one time with equal need. He was confident that one would have the more urgent need for a new heart, and he would...