Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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One answer, of course, is that many Americans so far simply refuse to believe that any massacre occurred. Another may be due to a reflex of patriotism, also demonstrated in the poll. This reflex says, in effect, that even if a massacre took place, this is no time, while the...
American law permits divorce, but reluctantly. It is a deeply rooted Western tradition that the partners must be somehow punished for ending a marriage. Hence the squalid court fights, private detectives with strobe guns, ruinously expensive lawyers' fees and the weeks at Reno dude ranches. A quarter of American...
Now California, the Western continental edge where the nation's future is said to lie, has adopted a divorce reform law that permits a couple to terminate their marriage almost on demand. No longer must cruelty, adultery, desertion or neglect be proved. If either husband or wife claims that...
Santa Monica's Rand Corp. is home to some of the nation's most intimidatingly intellectual precisionists. But Rand has left itself open to the burlesque of, say, a Jerry Lewis abstracted-professor routine. Rand mailed out some 20,000 calendars for 1970 festooned with the thoughts of...
THOUGH he managed to escape from Washington to the Southern California sun, last week was a chilly, somber time for President Richard Nixon. While the war in Viet Nam goes grimly on, it is no longer his chief preoccupation; the polls show and his Democratic opposition concedes that Vietnamization and...