Word: instead
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Break away from Ike-to create an independent image of strength instead of hanging onto Ike's coattails...
...months following the President's heart attack on Sept. 24, 1955. Confronted with a trying situation, in which even the appearance of undue self-assertion might have seemed a grabbing for power, Nixon conducted himself with poise and modesty, presided at Cabinet meetings from his customary chair instead of from the President's. When he had to confer with Cabinet officers, he went to their offices instead of asking them...
...West Berlin from West Germany, Adenauer vacillated for weeks, then abruptly proclaimed a trade embargo against the East Germans, to become effective Dec. 31, if they did not stop harassing Berlin. In their new artichokery style, the Communists did not reply with anything so dramatic as another Berlin blockade. Instead, they called for new talks with Bonn to push their claims to be officially recognized by West Germany...
...Ganges delta 200 miles east of Calcutta, there is so much more water than land that people wade or swim instead of walk, and boys paddle to school in big round earthenware pots called pipkins, with their books tucked under their folded legs. The delta's inhabitants have learned to live with such hazards as high spring tides and violent cyclones that sweep in over the Bay of Bengal at the turn of the monsoon in the fall. But this month uncounted thousands of them died in the worst storm since October 1876, when 100,000 drowned...
...Step Closer. Using the work of Medawar and others as a starting point, Australia's Burnet theorized that the rejection reaction is not inherited full-blown, instead is developed gradually in the fetus and young child. Burnet speculated that if, during the period of immunological development, the human body could be taught to tolerate grafts from selected donors, it would later be able to accept tissue transplants from those same donors. Seizing on Burnet's thesis. Dr. Medawar proceeded to confirm it in a series of laboratory tests. He inoculated mouse embryos in the womb with tissue from...