Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retreating sidewise. In a press release titled "U.S. Army Aligns with Educators," Army Secretary Wilber Brucker announced the end of college classes in machine-gun dry firing and other venerable exercises, turned the time over to normal academic subjects. Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates also seemed prepared to say out loud that no military requirement exists for compulsory ROTC. Under the circumstances, many a college may decide to make ROTC voluntary...
...Jewish law forbids man to kill on the Sabbath-even a flea or a worm. But an exception is made in the case of head lice and maggots. Why? Because, say the ancient commentaries, these are not real creatures in the line of life but the result of spontaneous generation-the louse from man's sweat and the maggot from decaying meat. Modern science, however, does not accept spontaneous generation; hence there must be some other reason for the law's distinction. Rabbi Tendler's answer: the dividing line is between the organism which exists on living...
Into the composing room of Barcelona's La Vanguardia Espanola rushed plump Publisher Luis de Galinsoga, ordering compositors to restore his name to the paper's masthead. The compositors refused. "Do as I say," cried Galinsoga. "I'm still director of La Vanguardia." Replied the chief compositor: "Not any more you aren...
...treatment for uncomplicated viral infections is desirable. A runny nose is an uncomfortable and socially embarrassing symptom, but the increased fluid secretion by the nasal mucosa is, some experts believe, one of the body's defenses against viral invasion. Drying up the mucosa (usually with anti-histamines), they say, may simply prolong the battle. The fever that results from many virus infections is also widely regarded as a major defense mechanism, might best be allowed to run its course...
Nature Does Its Best. No physician has yet had a good word to say for the headache and muscle pains of grippe or flu, so mild, painkilling drugs win ready approval. Trouble is that the commonest of these are aspirin and related salicylates -and these also drop the body temperature. Therefore even they may do harm as well as good...