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...that deposits are no longer growing at the former rate, the bank is rapidly approaching the moment of truth. In order to survive, the bank must make a public choice. It can make an all-out effort to enlist the support of the community over the protest of white depositors and board members, thus attracting a sufficiently large number of small accounts from the "man in the street" to survive. But the directors have made little effort to gain the sympathy of the masses. "When we have to read about what Freedom National is doing in the papers or hear...
...these matters, the President has remained strangely silent. According to his aides, one of the things that restrains him from expressing a sanguine view of events is his concern that if he did, home-front warriors would demand all-out escalation and instant victory. Conversely, Johnson often sounds as much or more concerned with the dovecoterie, apparently fearing that optimistic portents from the White House would redouble the clamor for a negotiated peace...
Lesser men would have been chastened by the military's zeal against corruption. Not Adhemar. While revolutionary tribunals zeroed in on the in discretions of Leftist Goulart and his allies, the Governor blithely launched an all-out kickback campaign that local businessmen defined wryly as "the golden era of the little tin box." Few new enterprises could get started without cutting Adhemar in, and established concerns were often hit for "contributions" to Adhemar-invented causes. An $18 million school-construction contract was mysteriously awarded without public bids...
...that deposits are no longer growing at the former rate, the bank is rapidly approaching the moment of truth. In order to survive, the bank must make a public choice. It can make an all-out effort to enlist the support of the community over the protest of white depositors and board members, thus attracting a sufficiently large number of small accounts from the "man in the street" to survive. But the directors have made little effort to gain the sympathy of the masses. "When we have to read about what Freedom National is doing in the papers or hear...
...China and France) has ended the era of pure bipolarity. It was this possibility of attack by the "Nth nation" that lead to the reversal of policy implicit in the Committee's decision. Military experts do not expect to create a defense system capable of protecting the U.S. against an all-out attack by the Soviet Union. But a system such as Nike-X would be very effective against a limited attack by an "Nth nation...