Word: began
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the last few years, the liberal Democratic image of Vice President Richard M. Nixon as a jowly, blue-jawed villain with a ski-jump nose has receded in the light of his growing stature and achievements. But last week, as the campaign year began, the old image popped up again-and from a predictable source...
...scientific first. Dr. Shope, working in Ocean County where encephalitis was raging, pitched energetically into the disease-detective work, collecting mosquitoes suspected of transmitting the virus. Inevitably, he was bitten. For a while he felt no ill effects. But during a mid-October train ride, Dr. Shope began to suffer chills; his muscles ached and his joints hurt. Next day he asked Dr. Delphine Clarke, a fellow worker at the institute, to draw blood for testing...
...current border-jumping epidemic began Labor Day, when one rabid dog bit a man and a child. It built up gradually. Imperial County was quarantined and declared a rabies area in early November...
...expected trouble. Through his mind flashed the unhappy vision of a late train, of his wife preparing dinner without any warning that he would be late. There was one way to prepare for the worst. With an air of quiet desperation, he went to the bar car, began drinking Scotch on the rocks as the train pulled out. The drinks were not wasted. By the time the 5:11 got to Riverside, it was 40 minutes late on a scheduled 47-minute...
...policy-and possibly U.S. antitrust laws-by discussing prices with competitors before they bid on big contracts for Government agencies such as the Tennessee Valley Authority. Equally grave, these men "had categorically denied any such acts" to Cordiner until months after a federal grand jury in Philadelphia began investigating; only then did they confess to him. Some of the executives, announced G.E., "have had their positions substantially downgraded, their level of compensation materially reduced, have been reassigned to positions with no responsibility for prices"-and forced to resign as officers. Others will be penalized soon. No names were mentioned...