Word: extents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brien study group-has some chance of fruition. The initial reaction from Congress, the postal unions and major postal users was generally favorable. President Johnson has accepted O'Brien's blueprint, at least to the extent of testing the wind, and last week appointed a commission to study...
...find a method Schelling will have to examine how money is spent not only by the State Department but also by related agencies -- and, to some extent, by the Defense Department...
Death Verdict? To greater or lesser extent, all of these factors weighed in the Speck voir dire. For his part, State's Attorney William Martin, 30, took a cool approach. "Where the crime speaks for itself," he said, "it is not for us to seek the sympathy of the jurors." Though he was searching for the relatives of policemen, nurses and young girls, Martin mainly focused on reactions to the most important question: "Do you have any conscientious or religious objections to the death penalty...
...first time in our history," observes New Yorker Critic Harold Rosenberg in the current issue of Encounter, "the university has become the training ground for artists as well as art teachers. This is a new situation, and the more quickly its potentialities are recognized, the better." To a considerable extent, universities are beginning to deal with this situation: campuses from Yale to California have acquired staffs of practicing artists as well as art historians. Nowhere is the picture brighter than at Manhattan's Hunter College, a city-run school that has, with a minimum of fuss, assembled...
...June 1960. Now there are twelve varieties, divided into two main classes, but all have two principal effects. First, they regularize a woman's monthly cycle so that she has her "period" every 26 to 28 days, as nature presumably intended. To this extent, the pills are biologically normalizing. Their second major effect is to do something that nature neither intended nor foresaw, and that is to prevent the release of a fertilizable egg from the woman's ovaries during the cycle in which the pills are taken, and thus make it impossible for her to conceive...