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...sooner or later have to take the risk of war with China-care ful and calculated but still a risk. The U.S. held on to West Berlin and ejected Soviet missiles from Cuba only by a calculated risk of war with the Soviet Union. Short of an all-out nuclear holocaust, which would level American cities, China after all stands to lose much more from a war than the U.S. So long as the U.S. creates the impression that it will do anything in Southeast Asia short of facing the real enemy-either militarily or diplomatically-China can simply...
...named the Upper Piedmont section of the state Wachau after a pretty valley in Austria. Wachovia was a relatively quiet little bank until about ten years ago. Then, convinced that the South was headed for tremendous growth, its management speeded up the bank's expansion and made an all-out bid for the business of big corporations...
...President Johnson and incorporated into the Great Society, medicare seems a cinch for passage this year by the hugely Democratic 89th Congress. But the A.M.A. is determined, in the words of one top official, "to go down fighting." Meeting last week in Chicago, the A.M.A. House of Delegates endorsed an all-out national drive against medicare, along with an equally all-out push for its own program-which it calls "eldercare...
...same sort of labeling that Magnuson is now asking for. But the FTC was urged by Congress to postpone any ruling until next spring. President Johnson, who quit smoking after his 1955 heart attack, made no mention of cigarettes in his massive health message to Congress, which promised an all-out attack on every major ill known...
...considerable body of Protestant and Catholic radicals, ranging from bishops to informed laymen and seminarians, believe that the present vitality of Christianity is simply a kind of spiritual Indian summer. Convinced that most of the structures of the church have outlived their usefulness, many of these all-out reformers want a new Pentecost-"a return to the womb and a new birth for the Christian community," in the words of David Edwards, editor of the Anglican SCM Press...