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...root of the trouble is the powder for the M-16's .233-cal. ammunition...
Fluffing for or by news media is the root cause for many an abused statistic. Newsmen during the Detroit race riots pressed a harried fire chief for damage estimates. His guess...
...last boxing event got under way the night of May 5, 1925, the gravelly voice of Announcer Joe Humphreys boomed over the crowd: "Farewell to thee, O Tem ple of Fistiana, farewell to thee, O sweet Miss Diana." He climbed from the ring, sobbing. Next day Lawyer-Statesman Elihu Root and Fight Promoter Tex Rickard stood together bare headed in the rain as a derrick lowered Diana from her pedestal...
Mark of Cain. One root of the problem, Schuman believes, is that young Americans "are raised to believe life is a matter of risk taking." Says he: "Driver training today is as outmoded as the dinosaur; we've got to teach youngsters to live with their cars, to 'cool it.' " The high accident rate and death toll of young male drivers also bothers insurance companies. Richard G. Chilcott, vice president of Nationwide Mutual Insurance, recently suggested that "mark of Cain" license plates be issued to drivers with bad records, restricting them to essential trips. And New York...
...root cause, of course, is the inability of the country to support needed programs that arises from the underdeveloped nature of the economy and the heavy burdens of war. The leaders of the universities have had their plans curtailed and restricted by annual budget cuts which allow them the means of funding little more than salaries at minimum levels. For fiscal 1967, the University of Saigon requested 250 million piasters and received 168 million (about $141,000 American dollars); the University of Can Tho for the same year requested 474 million pisters and received less than 174 million...