Word: cites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ecuador Volunteers cite the view that Peace Corps policy is motivated by the U.S. "world wide struggle against communism, not by a genuine desire to help poor nations" but they offer no evidence for the charge. This indictment amounts to a new claim of guilt by association. For all its faults the Peace Corps is the best thing that this nation is doing abroad, and to tar it with the brush of "arrogance" and "colonialism" merely because it is an agency of the U.S. government strikes me as both unsophisticated and dishonest. Efrem Sigel '64 Associate Managing Editor, 1964; Peace...
...quatrains which follow are all missing one scintillating line. Identify the song, the singer, and cite the missing line. The title and the singer are each worth one point and the missing line is worth two. Total possible score: 396 points, Highest scorer wins a prize beyond his or her wildest dreams...
...announcing the University's ad hoe censorship of radio and television broadcasting at last Thursday's teach-in William Bentinck-Smith, assistant to the President, said the ban was part of a long-standing policy. Yet when pressed, he could not cite a single case in which televising had been denied to a group whose sponsors requested it. Indeed, precedent supports those who asked the President's office to allow broadcasting...
...these sessions he liked to cite John Kennedy's original direction to him: "Determine what forces are required and procure and support them as economically as possible." The first half of this mandate meant more spending. Even before the Viet Nam war reached major proportions, McNamara's budget was $10 billion above those of the last Eisenhower years because Kennedy was determined to establish his own military strategy-flexible response instead of John Foster Dulles' massive retaliation. Flexible response dictated that the nation must be able to meet any military challenge, whether nuclear, conventional or guerrilla...
...General Hospital predicted in 1961 that Parkinson's disease would all but dis appear by 1980. Some medical authorities were skeptical, for they had seen no change in the number of Parkinson's cases over the years. Poskanzer and Schwab have now reiterated their earlier conclusion, and cite new evidence to support...