Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...since he was 16 years old. On demand, he must give his present monthly income, the amount of cash deposited in banks and an estimate of the value of his other assets. Said a British applicant: "It made me feel like a refugee from Dragnet." In defense of the system a U.S. consul in The Netherlands said, "If we abolished the visa tomorrow, 20,000 Filipinos and 20,000 Italians would travel to the U.S. without a penny in their pockets...
...wanted to postpone elections and the return of democratic government until the army had enforced drastic authoritarian reforms on virtually every phase of Turkish life. The mass trial of ex-Premier Adnan Menderes and 520 other Turkish ex-leaders, after arousing international uneasiness about Turkey's juridical system with arguments about shaggy dogs and mistresses, was at last beginning to produce serious evidence of the old regime's abuse of power...
...assistant to Harvard Neurologist Dr. Raymond Adams, suggested calling him in. Dr. Adams flew from Boston to Ankara. Last week, after Dr. Adams had examined General Gursel, the relieved panel of doctors announced that the general's disability was only a "minor circulatory disturbance in the nervous system." At week's end the general, his paralysis gone, was beginning to transact state business from his bed, was expected to be fully restored and back at his desk in a matter of weeks...
Discoverer XVIII's primary mission was another step in the perfection of two space-age military reconnaissance techniques: the Samos system for camera detection of such ground-level activity as troop movements, and the Midas early missile-warning system, which is said to detect rocket firings anywhere on earth by means of infra-red sensors...
Ionics' specialty is purifying brackish water, which has a maximum of only 10,000 parts of dissolved contaminants per million parts of water. The Ionics system is much more costly in converting sea water, where the contamination rate is 35,000 parts per million...