Word: tors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their troops and their hold on the peasants. Alternatively, they could go into Phase 3 anyway, perhaps even with a mass assault of divisional size on U S units in the hope of discrediting the U.S. presence by a major, one-shot victory. But that might well prove suicidal tor the Viet Cong have discovered that these days a mass assault all too easily turns into an avalanche of airborne bullets, napalm and bombs. Or they might simply fade away to lie low, Br'er Rabbit fashion, in the hope that sooner or later the U.S. would get weary...
...Solicitor General is often judged less by his Supreme Court victories than by his success in getting federal agencies to accept lower-court decisions. In 1964 Archibald Cox, Marshall's predecessor, who plans to resume teaching labor law at Harvard, held off 74% of the requests tor appeals from decisions against the Government in U.S. district courts Of 385 potential appeals to the Supreme Court, he approved only 43. Such selectivity pays off: the Supreme Court now accepts about 66% of the Government's petition compared with less than 10% of those of private lawyers...
...From those 20 imported African queens have come as many as 450,000 new bees a year almost none of which inherited the traits of the Italians and Germans that fathered them. Quick to anger, even quicker to swarm, the new Africans lave turned on Italian and German bees tor no apparent reason, killing off hive after hive. Moreover, the new males passed their bad blood on to new females, who went on propagating the angry strain. "We thought that when they got acclimated they would become civilized," says Father João Oscar Nedlel, S.J., a Brazilian bee expert...
...sophisticated have the production and marketing of processed meats become that most packers look to them tor their major profit growth. Processed meat, they say, can be produced more cheaply than the fresh variety and pack aged with a distinctive brand name to attract the eye of the housewife. "When we sell fresh meat," explains A.M I Economist Allen Johnson, "we often say we are just selling cordwood...
Straight Propaganda. For all his eminence on TV, Murrow fought a running battle with CBS brass for several years. A 28-man committee had been set up to approve all news programs, and in 1958 See It Now was dropped. Finally, Murrow gave a speech denouncing the whole industry tor purveying "decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world." A Democrat by leaning, the he left TV in 1961 to take the job of director of the U.S. Information Agency under President Kennedy...