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...People. On the same day that Nixon appeared at the U.N., he was lashed by a familiar adversary. After brooding for nearly two months about the effect of his fatal Chappaquiddick Island accident on his credibility in raising a moral issue, Senator Edward Kennedy converted a routine dinner speech in Boston into a chance to resume-with even more sting than before-his attack on the Administration's war policy. "We have made only token troop withdrawals on the battlefield, an exercise in politics and improvisation," he charged. He called Viet Nam "difficult to justify, impossible...
...powder because it makes them feel physically warm and peaceful and raises their self-esteem and confidence. Large doses can sufficiently slow bodily functions to cause death; more commonly, heroin users develop abscessed veins and hepatitis from dirty needles, are undernourished and prone to infections. Users occasionally have a fatal reaction even before the needle leaves their arm. A person on any of the opiates develops the familiar symptoms of physical dependency: a tolerance that demands constantly increasing doses to maintain the high, and withdrawal symptoms of sweating, cramps and even occasional convulsions when the drug wears off. Although doctors...
...ARPA needed to re-establish themselves with the Pentagon bureaucracy. It was not to be an information gathering project as Camelot had been, but would center instead on developing new ways of using and interpreting behavioral science data. Thus it entailed none of the diplomatic risks that had proved fatal to project Camelot (and almost fatal to the little social science bureaucracy within the Pentagon as well). At the same time the behavioral science officials at ARPA also believed that the M.I.T. project might convince the higher levels of the Pentagon research bureaucracy that the behavioral sciences could begin...
...Both are present in normal tissue but, they found, only Hex-B occurs in the tissue of Tay-Sachs victims. So, they concluded, it is the absence of Hex-A that prevents the metabolism of fats in brain cells, and this results in the fatal disease...
...what banks fail in Texas, as long as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation protects us? That would be a fitting refrain these days in the Lone Star State, where five small, state-chartered banks have collapsed since April.* Their fatal maladies were, variously, loose lending policies, lax management, land speculation, declining rural communities and, in one instance, alleged embezzlement. Perhaps it only reflects the new permissive attitude of the times, but Texas depositors have taken the closings with carefree jollity. Says Robbie Ferguson Jr., cashier and vice president of the failed Big Lake State Bank: "At first...