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...similar vein, Richard Nixon told an interviewer that it would be disastrous for a Republican presidential nominee to run on a "peace-at-any-price" platform in 1968. "This would be a Pyrrhic victory the candidate might win," said Nixon, "but the Republican President would soon have another war on his hands." Nixon took note of the growing peace sentiment within the U.S. but added that the task for a presidential contender is not to pander to this sentiment but to exert forceful leadership...
...about the same time, though, the Beatleologists hit a dry vein when they decided that the songtitle "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was an anagram for LSD. The song's author, John Lennon, has explained to the world that "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was the title of a drawing his daughter brought home from school, around which he built a song about a little girl's fantasies. The song is simply an updated "Big Rock Candy Mountain" with a very neat accelerate-slowdown effect that gives the impression that you're traveling...
...totally different vein, New Haven's Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Assocs. has designed the buoyant $10,000,000 National Aquarium to be transparently clear and open. Located at Haines Point, in spacious Potomac Park, it is to be crowned by a 114-ft.-high greenhouse, shaped like a streamlined horseshoe, which will permit scientists from the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife to construct complete ecologies, or natural environments, within it. Reconstructed portions of the Florida Everglades, coral reefs and East and West Coast tidal pools will display not only fish but also insects and even birds in native...
Addressing the N.A.A.C.P. convention in a similar vein, Massachusetts' Republican Senator Edward Brooke held that ghetto violence can be traced to the failure at all levels of government to respond to the aspirations of moderates. "More and more Negroes," said Brooke, "have come to believe that progress is possible only through militant action, that moderation has failed to accomplish enough to satisfy the objectives of the civil rights movement. Black Power is a response to white irresponsibility...
...devised a method to remove most of the flukes. The two reasoned that when a patient is cut open to have his spleen removed, he might as well be rid of the flukes at the same time. They designed a system of tubes to pipe the blood from the vein entering the patient's liver, pumping it through a filter, and returning it to a vein in the leg (see diagram). In order to lure the flukes out of their customary lairs in the intestinal veins, they give patients a single injection of tartar emetic. The flukes, which find...