Word: withheld
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flak and missile defenses, they realize all too well the likelihood of death or capture and extend a special kind of respect to those who have eluded both. Into the flyer's pantheon of heroes last week went two young Navy lieutenants. One-whose name the Pentagon withheld to protect other prisoners who might have helped him-escaped from a Laos-based prison camp. He spent 23 days hiding in mountain wilderness, finally was rescued by a "Jolly Green Giant" helicopter after U.S. flyers spotted an S.O.S. he had made with white rags spread on the ground. The other...
...most states, juries are normally instructed that a plaintiff who fails to take such precautions may not collect; the plaintiff's negligence means the defendant gets off scot-free, which seems to be just what happened in Milwaukee. Once the jury received its instructions, it absolved Budner and withheld all damages for Mrs. Busick...
...Chloramphenicol (Chloromycetin), though one of the most dangerous drugs in wide use, is by far the best for typhoid fever. In the Philippines, among 408 charity patients suffering from typhoid, chloramphenicol was deliberately withheld from 157, of whom 36 died. Only 20 died among the 251 who got the standard treatment. By statistical deduction, 23 patients died needlessly for the sake of the study...
Operation Igloo. The rent program has had rocky going right from the very beginning. Intended to help handicapped, low-income and other needy families pay their rent in nonprofit private housing, the scheme was authorized last summer by Congress, which thereupon withheld the appropriations to get it started. This year, House Republicans mounted a bruising floor fight and barely failed to scuttle the rent-subsidy funds; last week, in the Senate Appropriations Committee, Republicans and Southern Democrats succeeded in eliminating them...
Mean Appearance. Taking grim stock of the situation, Herald Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney wrote an eloquent Page One indictment of the unions and a last-minute plea for cooperation. "In the past," he said, "management's side has always been modestly withheld for fear of offending the negotiators and labor has had its say effectively so that we always appeared either mean or incompetent and sometimes both." Whitney conceded that the publishers had much to answer for in the past. But the present problem, he went on, is "here and now when we are trying to make...