Word: leveled
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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South Africa's "realists" (white Nationalists) are the wave of the future. TIME (and others) should realize that it was the realistic element of our world that did all the building, inspiring, and gave the leadership that brought us to our present high level of civilization...
...official level, De Gaulle achieved little. Speaking as a man without any stockpile of A-bombs of his own, De Gaulle repeated his proposal that all nuclear weapons should be destroyed and forsworn by everyone. Apparently, he is undeterred by the probability that the destruction of atomic weapons would simply restore military primacy to the nation with the most potent conventional armed forces. Staunchly convinced that Europe's future depends upon the close collaboration of France with Germany, he gave Prime Minister Harold Macmillan little sympathy in his plea for a showdown in establishment of the Common Market...
...normal people, he said, the hydrocortisone output goes up sharply in the early morning hours to a peak around 6 a.m., then falls gradually to a nighttime resting level. In a rheumatoid arthritis victim, this pattern is generally reversed. Lacking adaptive ability, the patient reacts with a flare-up of disease when the cortisone tide ebbs. This may happen after delivery to a woman who has been free of arthritis symptoms during pregnancy. The letdown phenomenon is also seen in patients after long-term cortisone treatment...
Gathering information for his column Krock may call as many as a dozen top level government sources, as he did in a recent piece on the pros and cons of atomic-test suspension. "But," he says I often now deliberately play down new angles because I am not trying for beats but for understanding. I don't want to have the reputation of a 'scoop' artist That is tiresome for a man who wants to be a solid reporter...
...simplest level, The Waters of Kronos is a long way from being original, but Author Richter's treatment of his story is, and his style has the pleasurable maturity of old wine. Like most mature writers, he has turned, at 69, to the secret recapitulations that round out a lifetime; almost of necessity he is grave, but never boring...