Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...canapés are any foretaste of the meal, the confrontation will be cold, costly and interminable. After all the enticing tidbits set out by both sides, Washington and Hanoi could not agree last week on a venue for the menu, or even accept that the other side had any real appetite for preliminary talks aimed at ending the Viet...
...sites to 15 seemed mainly a ploy to demonstrate that the U.S. was open-minded. North Viet Nam dismissed the four criteria as "absurd and insolent," and termed the lengthened list a "tortuous maneuver" to delay talks. Privately, U.S. officials have come to doubt that the North Vietnamese will accept any place on earth first suggested by the U.S. Accordingly, Washington let it be known that it was seeking proposals from third parties. At the U.N., Arthur Goldberg conferred with Secretary-General U Thant. In Washington, Rusk chatted with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin. Thant has been talking about Paris...
Saving on Rice. What is planned is a call-up of an additional 158,000 men this year, aimed particularly at the young. Eighteen-and 19-year-olds will be drafted first, and the army will accept volunteers of 16 and 17. Not only are men of those ages more militarily educable, but few have families, thus saving the government rice allowances and family bonuses normally paid to older, married soldiers. And, since the Viet Cong are recruiting at younger and younger ages, the government hopes to get to the boys before the enemy does. It also intends to induct...
...Syracuse University College of Law, Earl Morris, 59, president of the American Bar Association, echoed Griswold as he said: "Many today seem to be demanding for themselves the unlimited right to disobey law." But "an essential concomitant of civil disobedience is the actor's willingness to accept the punishment that follows." The philosophical "concept has been distorted in these times to justify violence and anarchy. What is reprehensible in these acts is not the end to be achieved, but the methods of achieving...
...generally undistinguished academic record. He impressed Penn officials by mentioning in his application his deep love of sailing, which, he rhapsodized, occupies his attention "from the first wakening sail in early April to the last frostbite stint in late October." Columbia passed over applicants with stronger academic credentials to accept a practicing Buddhist from up state New York, a New Jersey student who arranged music for an off-Broad way show and a Long Island youth who accompanied his application with photographs of his sculpture. It also agreed to accept Vladimir Gulevich, 20, of Paterson, N.J., who graduated from...