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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ironically, said Piel, no such over whelming nuclear strike forces is necessary for deterrance, since the civilian population of a country is highly vulnerable to attack--for example, an attack with a total weight of about 1000 megatons directed against the 111 largest metropolitan regions in the country could yield up to 100 million casualties...
...Durer woodcuts have been known to produce certain effects, but a really specialized attack requires more information. Information offices are shockingly liberal toward section-manly voices. A little skill and resonance can yield the place and date of birth, family and educational backgrounds, field of concentration, course program, weight, vaccination record, and attitude toward raw carrots, of a really special prospect. The sophisticated one then develops problems with which the 'Cliffie is particularly adapted to cope, and places himself in a position where the latent mother in them all is particularly liable to arise...
...shift in influence away from the more sophisticated Westerners will arrest Israel's surging economic growth. Last month he appointed a commission of demographers, sociologists and doctors to see what could be done either to reverse the population trend or to prevent Israel from stagnating under the dead weight of a semiliterate majority. The commission's most obvious recommendation will be to improve the nation's patchy educational system. In the universities, Afro-Asians account for a scant 5% of the 10,000 students, though they now represent 54% of Israel's Jewish population. Moreover...
...meats and cold cuts, supermarkets suddenly begin to sell more potatoes, carrots, turnips and stew meats, while small steaks tend to give way in popularity to roasts, ribs and the heavier cuts of meats. Tea slumps, and coffee, cocoa, soups and chili rise. Candy sales -both low-calorie and weight-increasing -jump about 40% in the fall. At the same time, down goes the lowly frankfurter; after Labor Day First National Stores, a chain of supermarkets in New England, New York and New Jersey, sell 50% fewer frankfurters and 65% fewer hot dog rolls...
...added to both in 1939 when he and his own nine-piece band cut Body And Soul, one of the most famous jazz disks ever recorded. Hawkins stayed as active in the bopping '40s as he had been in the swinging '30s, which would seem to lend weight to his theory that "there has been no evolution in jazz; it's the same old stuff interpreted and played differently. Laymen make a big deal about such-and-such a style, but it's all a matter of what a man is thinking...