Word: untouchedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the wives are totally untouched by the violence that pervades their husbands' lives. Not Jeanne Randazzo. Her husband Frank and two other men were shot to death last summer in the basement of the Randazzos' modest home on the east side of Detroit. The gunman, a...
ready to be President. His contempt for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, expressed so bitterly at the time of the Bay of Pigs, evolved into the realization that sometimes they knew better than he did. "I did not know enough to ask the right questions," he admitted. One night at...
Not for lack of documents. Because the Germans were compulsive record keepers, the entire history of the program-plant diagrams, patent descriptions, detailed reports on which catalysts and additives work best, even the monthly reports of Hitler's 25 oil-from-coal plants-fell into American hands at the...
So you're sitting at a crowded table in a crowded dining hall, and eight people are carrying on ten conversations. Now it's your turn. "Reminds me about the time..." you start to ramble, priming for the punch line and nervously checking other faces, for you realize that now...
Within the next decade, Americans will be learning a new language in their kitchens, factories, automobiles and local bars. The metric system of weights and measures, already used in nearly every other country around the world, is being slowly adopted in the U.S. Although the switch is voluntary, Congress passed...