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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some officials argue, the U.S. might adopt the same attitude in evaluating the signs of reduced military activity in the South. The North Vietnamese pullback could merely reflect the impact of recent allied military successes, but the fact remains that Hanoi has never before withdrawn troops on so large a scale. Why not, ask some officials, interpret this move as a signal that Hanoi is attempting to offer reciprocity for a bombing pause? If this is not a signal, they ask further, what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: WATCHING FOR THE PEACE SIGNALS | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

Last spring, the City government was divided over whether to build the relocatable classrooms, or to adopt the supposedly less expensive course of scattering the Houghton children throughout other City schools for the next two years. Proponents of the relocatable classroom plan argued that it would keep the Houghton children together for the period, preserving the "unique spirit of the school...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Quincy House Gains Young Neighbors | 10/19/1968 | See Source »

Bundy, who in a major shift in policy last week urged a halt in the bombing of North Vietnam and de-escalation of the war, warned that "when you ask military men to adopt a political strategy, you are asking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bundy Amplifies Saturday Speech | 10/17/1968 | See Source »

Also accompanying the fact-sheet is an invitation to all Harvard students to attend a meeting of the HUC Monday night. The HUC is expected to adopt a resolution at that meeting calling on Harvard to withdraw academic standing of ROTC courses, the funding of ROTC programs, the use of classified material and other restrictive practices, and the status of ROTC scholarship recipients if credit were to be withdrawn from the ROTC programs here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUC to Distribute ROTC Facts; Debate on Credit Set for Monday | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...novel, The Red Badge of Courage. He may have been thinking of God as well as the critics when he chortled: "They used to call me that ter rible young rascal, but now they are beginning to hem and haw and smile-those very old coots who used to adopt a condescending air toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Young Man in a Hurry | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

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