Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know that the pacification program is now over. The villages have been lost completely. There's another set of secondary effects which have come which I think are perhaps of even longer range importance. And this was the inability of both the United States and the South Vietnamese to cope with the attacks. We watched the government of South Vietnam and the American military call in air strikes against their own cities and their own civilians. We watched the whole Eastern industrial suburbs of Saigon, Gia Dinh, burned out, sector after sector, for five days running. And the thousands--hundreds...
Peter's successors frittered away the fleet, but when Catherine the Great came to power in 1762, she began a massive rebuilding program. To find enough officers to command her new ships, Catherine collected foreign naval men almost as fast as she collected lovers. Among them was the American Revolutionary War hero, John Paul Jones, who, despite his bravery and gift for quick phrasemaking, had risen no higher than captain in the U.S. Navy. In return for an admiral's rank, Jones took command of a Russian sailing fleet composed of four battleships, eight frigates and assorted smaller craft that...
Whatever the claims, nearly all medical men who have given serious consideration to the matter agree that a regular program of exercise is not only good but also quite necessary for human well-being amid the tensions of contemporary society. By general agreement, the best exercise for most people is walking, then jogging, then running. These activities have the important side advantages of requiring no skill or equipment while offering endless opportunities for self-congratulation. Beyond this there are specialized programs of exercise under the careful direction of experts. Whatever the exercise, the experts agree that it must be consistent...
...spend on a science center. Beloit College President Miller Upton, who readily accepts aid, notes that some federal construction requires the temporary erection of a building-site sign with Lyndon B. Johnson's name in letters three inches high-but Upton agrees that this hardly hinders the academic program. President George Benson of Claremont Men's College sees no coercion in construction grants, notes that "once the building is up, there isn't much the Government can do about...
...professionals who have participated agree that nude marathons are worth further trials, provided they are conducted by a trained leader. Nude psychotherapy has achieved enough respectability to be the subject of a two-hour program at a recent meeting of the California State Psychological Association. Last weekend Bindrim started a new series of 16 sessions at a desert motel near Palm Springs...