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...against the U.S., portraying it as an unfeeling aggressor, while paying an inordinate amount of attention to Japanese suffering. Too little is made of Tokyo's atrocities, the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor or the recalcitrance of Japan's military leaders in the late stages of the war -- the catalyst for the deployment of atomic weapons. John T. Correll, editor in chief of Air Force Magazine, noted that in the first draft there were 49 photos of Japanese casualties, against only three photos of American casualties. By his count there were four pages of text on Japanese atrocities, while there...
Students for a Democratic Society's (SDS)motive in taking over University Hall was tocreate a catalyst for revolution, says Frank D.Raines '71, who was chair of the Student-FacultyAdvisory Committee. But he says this is not themotive for today's protests...
...Mark Green, New York City public advocate and a longtime supporter of antismoking measures, "has been the booster rocket launching the antismoking movement into orbit." Notes an EPA official: "We had no real sense of how big this report was going to be. But it has become the major catalyst for the reforms we're seeing all over the country...
...easily eclipsed Dick Greeley's 46-year-old mark for goals by a Harvard defenseman by six goals, as McCann lit the lamp 22 times this year. McCann lit the lamp 22 times this year. McCann was catalyst on the power play where he scored 17 of those goals, many on pinpoint accuracy one-timers...
...exciting, spontaneous things happen. Catherine is mercurial, jumping frenziedly from one activity to the next. She goes out with them dressed as a man, and at one point throws herself into the Seine as they are walking home from the theater. For Jules and Jim, Catherine functions as a catalyst; she introduces an element of unpredictability, excitement and danger into their lives...