Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Major General Lee Ho, Vice Chief of South Korea's Martial Law Headquarters, insisted that no one had yet been executed without due process of law. Civilians sentenced to death are supposed to be hanged, added Ho, "but we have found shooting by firing squad more convenient...
EXPERIMENT is the rule throughout every phase of Tito's Yugoslavia, and the general result is regimented confusion. Much of the government resembles the experimental laboratory of a university: a lot of kids-some with textbooks still in hand-are trying to run a country...
...Brussels, midway through a lecture on the battle of Cassino and the Italian campaign, exiled Polish General Wladyslaw Anders was interrupted by Communist hoodlums who threw eggs and tomatoes, then let loose a few stink bombs and a boxful of white mice in the audience. Eventually police came and carted off about 150 of the hecklers...
...time has come," said the New York State Board of Regents last week, "when we as a nation must request some form of universal national service from all our young men and women . . ." To clear the way for general inductions at 18, the top policy body of New York's public school system recommended that high schools pack their standard four-year courses into three. Suggested expedients: wider use of summer classes and, "in some instances," heavier study loads during regular semesters...
...socially conscious Denmark has gone further than most nations in eliminating the factors that encourage tuberculosis. In lands where all else is hopeless, BCG has been given a fairer chance to make a statistical case for itself. Throughout the crowded, war-torn areas of Europe and the East, where general health conditions are at their worst, the International Tuberculosis Campaign, jointly sponsored by several U.N. and Red Cross organizations, has injected some 14 million people with the TB vaccine. Their fond hope is that the vaccinations have cut tuberculosis morbidity* by four-fifths. Only time and a careful check...