Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really necessary to make such a mockery of the Harewood-Tuck-well marriage [Aug. 11]? I found your treatment to be crude, distasteful and juvenile. If your aim was lightheartedness, you missed the mark, I fear. In my opinion the write-up very definitely smacks of lightheadedness...
...those who feel that the President is pursuing a "no-win" policy, the Administration points out that total victory is not the aim of this war. While there are highly placed military men who privately complain about the restrictions under which the war is being fought, some of the strongest supporters of Lyndon Johnson's gradual approach to the war are the generals and admirals themselves. In the four years of the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln ran through seven commanding generals; William Childs Westmoreland, after three years, is only the second American commander in Viet...
...Longer a Contest. For the enemy, both elements of the Viet Nam war are coordinated and directed from Hanoi. And both have the same aim: the takeover of South Viet Nam and the reunification of the Vietnamese under Hanoi's Red rule. But the dual assault, with all its variations, has made the task of the U.S. and its allies doubly difficult?tough to assess and hard to explain. Victories over the North Vietnamese troops do not readily translate into visible progress in the guerrilla war. The bombing of North Viet Nam may slow the southward flow of arms...
...Francisco's Nathaniel Owings, senior member of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. He has good reason to: he is chairman of the President's Temporary Commission on Pennsylvania Avenue and is also responsible for drafting a master plan for developing the mile-long Capitol Mall. In both cases his aim is the same: "A return to the simple but grand design of two centuries...
However, he does stress that Itek's analysis of the Nix film"... was undertaken by Itek as a public service and was not subsidized by UPI or anyone else." In so doing, his apparent aim is to counter any impression that Itek's heavy dependency on federal contracts might in some degree have been a factor in their decision to undertake a lengthy and costly analysis of a photographic image which no recognized Warren Report critic had alleged to be a valid human figure...