Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such personal diplomacy, by the content of his public addresses, by the force of his energies, President Johnson in his first month in office has dispelled some of the doubts that existed about him when he took over. But the aim of activity must be accomplishment, and in this area, the returns are still out. Yet if there was one thing that marked Johnson's career as a Senate leader, it was accomplishment...
...Atlanta that time is running out. If some concrete changes for good are not made soon, Negro leaders of Atlanta will find it impossible to convince the masses of Negroes of the good faith of the negotiations presently taking place. We must revolt peacefully, openly and cheerfully, because our aim is to persuade. We will try to persuade with our words, but if our words fail, we must persuade with our acts...
This, of course, would be a tiny drop in the bucket. But the announcement served a shrewd purpose. A major aim of President Johnson's cost-cutting drive was to impress the cost-conscious Congress. But whereas a Congressman may be all for money-saving in the abstract, it is quite a different matter when the proposal is to save money from his own state or district. Thus, upon hearing of McNamara's plans, there were the predictable yelps from almost all the affected Congressmen. They were heard by the folks at home, but would hardly sway Secretary...
Back to Saigon this week, for the second time in three months, goes U.S. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara. His aim: to size up South Viet Nam's new regime, which was helped to power by the U.S. on the theory that it would fight the war more effectively than the murdered President Diem, but which, so far at least, has provided disappointing leadership. The war is still showing alarming drift, and the Communist guerrillas have shown signs of getting bolder. Last week TIME Correspondent Murray Gart, to get his own look at the war, flew on 26 helicopter...
...Edouard Alphonse Paul de Rothschild.* It was Guy (hard g as in geese) who, taking over the family's French bank during the disorder of war and defeat, changed its character from stewardship of the family fortune to expansive modern banking. Where the bank's previous aim in this century had been to pursue safe obscurity, under Guy it entered the mainstream of modern business...