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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troops as they did only a month ago. Increasingly, the Vietnamese handle a larger share of patrol duty. That fact is not only reflected in lower U.S. casualties but also in relatively unchanged ARVN losses over the past month: during the last reporting period, they lost 290 men killed, almost three times the number of American dead...
...sniffers" hurry to the scene, ready to bottle the air, analyze it and repair the leak. Elaborate ductwork in one factory connects the points where noisome phenols might be emitted and whisks them to a scrubber system that removes the odor with absorbent filters. Since 1967, Monsanto has spent almost $3,000,000 to curb pollution in St. Louis, plus another $12 million at its other plants across the nation...
...series of daily swims and visits to fascinating ruins, the passengers gathered on the ship's deck for a two-hour working meeting. "Society and Human Settlements: Policies for the Future" was the stated theme of the conference, but policies rarely emerged. The language unfortunately was almost unfailingly prolix, sententious and jargon ridden...
...Meantime, his wage gains are being eroded by in flation, rising taxes and the lure of easy credit for new cars and other luxuries. "This man feels himself more alone than any other member of society," says Saul Alinsky, a life long organizer of working-class movements. "He is almost out of his mind with frustration - call it hate. He sees his Government, with programs for blacks and for the indigent and programs for everyone except him, and he figures, 'God dammit, I'm paying for this out of my pocket.' He's got some bungalow...
Trapped in a racial buffer zone between the black ghetto and white suburb, the white lower middle class is hit hard for revenue to finance welfare and all the other rising costs of big-city government. The middle class has the heaviest tax burden, but almost everywhere lower-middle-class whites feel that they are being forced to pay the real price of in tegration while assorted social planners and liberal moralists retreat at night to their suburban fastnesses. Such whites view bussing, for example, as a scheme to move their chil dren to worse public schools while rich children...