Word: exceptions
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...stop rocketing South Vietnamese cities; the U.S. also intended to continue intelligence flights over the North. The North Vietnamese never formally agreed to the understandings. Instead, word came from Moscow that Hanoi grasped the American position. By and large, the North Vietnamese have stuck to the unacknowledged agreement since, except for occasional attacks on U.S. intelligence flights. Now the President has unilaterally and considerably widened the understandings. Lately Hanoi has increased infiltration, and an estimated 8,000 Russian-made military trucks now are parked just north of the Demilitarized Zone. The President did not say that Hanoi would actually have...
...loss was not discouraging but very disappointing. It's nothing that can't be corrected," coach John Lee said. "There's no real problem, except we want to win very badly and for the second straight year we lost...
...Innocents might have been harmless, though inane, war-time storytelling, except that Flood cannot resist editorializing. This is 1967, remember, and Flood's prescription for ending the war is to increase troop levels to two million American soldiers in Vietnam and thereby "pacify" the countryside. The only officer Flood meets who advocates American withdrawal is a Harvard graduate, as is Flood, so Flood takes a fraternal interest in showing the officer the flaws in his argument. Flood gets along better, however, with yet another Harvard officer, who explains that "the survival of our civilization is ultimately a function...
This kind of genius, and that is what it is, comes to us so rarely that when it does, it defies all our expectations, all our pretentious preconceptions, all our prejudices. Elizabeth Bishop caters to no one, except to the careful reader. Her poems are not easy, and they make no attempt to be popular. I myself find them so vivid, so intensely compressed that I can only read a little at a time. But Miss Bishop's poems are not consciously difficult by any means; they are almost too clear to look at. She is the least esoteric...
...primitive planetary atmosphere. The most compelling evidence was the nature of the amino acids themselves. Ever since Louis Pasteur's day, chemists have known that the atoms of organic compounds like amino acids can be assembled in two ways-one a mirror image of the other. Yet except for those made artificially, most amino-acid molecules found on earth have a "lefthanded" configuration; that is, beams of polarized light passed through them are rotated slightly to the left. When the NASA scientists examined the meteorite's amino acids, however, they discovered an almost equal division of left...