Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, the doctors, who had been amazed by Ike's resilience, were not making any predictions. As in the past, the former President rallied just as the watching world feared the worst. Though his condition remained serious, he managed to down a portion of gelatine for dessert, which doctors said he "ate with relish." For all this, it was evident that the old soldier was waging the biggest battle of his life...
...Mars. Their cameras, which can pick out features twelve times smaller than Mariner 4 could see, will nonetheless be unable to distinguish objects less than 900 ft. across. Says Robert Leighton, a California Institute of Technology physicist who is in charge of Mariner's TV experiments: "At the worst, we should be able to kill a lot of old legends about the dark lines being canals carrying water from polar ice caps to oases in the desert-or the ones that say the vast regions that change color every spring are vegetation...
...hero, were also ROTC-trained. Currently, about one-third of the Army generals are ROTC men, including five major generals who are commanding divisions in Viet Nam; only one division there is headed by a West Pointer. Says Brigadier General Clifford Hannum, head of the Army ROTC: "The worst thing you could do is cause the Army to turn inward for its officers...
...undergraduates can no longer be made to plod through four years of weekly close-order rituals to master what basic trainees learn in the first few days of boot camp. Admits a high-ranking Army ROTC officer in the Pentagon: "Leadership laboratory may well be the program's worst enemy. It's got to go if we are to survive...
True to form, Haldane, the worst of psychologists, was astonished that many people failed to recognize his praiseworthy intentions: to make known that some cancers can be cured. Soon afterward he died...