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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Retaliation with biological weapons would be risky at best. It would be difficult to ensure that diseases spread among enemy troops would not infect friendly nations. In fact, there could be no guarantee that a retaliatory American germ attack would not cause a pandemic that eventually would infect the U.S. Added to these dangers are the continuing problems of safely developing, storing and transporting the germs...
...bedded down in the LRL for the remainder of their 21-day quarantine, NASA was making plans for its next lunar expedition. Buoyed by the bull's-eye at Surveyor Crater, the space agency tentatively scheduled the launch of Apollo 13 for March 12 and picked the most difficult site to date for man's next lunar landing: the ancient highlands near the mountain-ringed crater Fra Mauro...
Other companies have used the single-policy idea and door-to-door peddling. They have even copied Penn Life's presentation-and have done less well. The company's personnel policy is more difficult to duplicate. As Beyer says: "From the minute we hire a man, he is in our house for the rest of his life-he, his wife, his children, his dreams become our responsibility. There is no firing in this company. A man has to be a thief to be fired...
...fairly hard to take seriously. That's not a new quality for the workings of the Selective Service System. It has always been difficult to realize than that system took its male youth to fight and die for interests that were incomprehensible or vile to many of them. The distance of this mighty bureaucracy and its indifference to what its recruits thought or wanted never quite ?bed with what we were taught to think as "American...
...addition, it would seem difficult for any university to accept huge sums from political agencies and at the same time be independent and critical of them. According to Everett I. Mendelsohn. associate professor of the History of Science. "the Defense Department is very anxious to try to pacify university opposition by putting its money there; people are much less willing to goad an agency which is supporting them...