Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be difficult to find two men more diverse in their approach. Laird, a kinetic, combative Midwesterner, testified before the Senate's Foreign Relations subcommittee on disarmament the week after he returned from his first tour of Viet Nam as Defense Secretary. As an eight-term Congressman from Wisconsin, he was used to committee hearings, and he knew how to make his point in them. During vigorous questioning, he stood his ground firmly. Rogers, a former Attorney General and ever the coolly prepared advocate, showed a reasoned, refreshingly pliant approach to questions that Laird handled with brusque assurance...
Sensible as such an approach seems, it has been impossible until now, in part because of South Viet Nam's refusal to meet with representatives of the N.L.F. However, the Nixon Administration, through Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, has been applying heavy pressure on President Thieu to modify his position, and last week he did. Calling foreign correspondents to the presidential palace, Thieu announced: "We are ready to have private talks with the N.L.F., if they like...
...mission has just concluded a small trade agreement in Peking, and East-bloc countries are expected to be invited to do likewise. The East Europeans, of course, are far too realistic to think that China can replace Soviet influence in Europe. Yet many of them welcome the new Chinese approach because it gives them additional leverage against the Soviets...
...Another approach is to consolidate existing schools. In San Francisco last year, four schools were restructured; three now teach the first six grades only, while the fourth has become a common seventh-and eighth-grade school fed by the others. Successfully mixed in the new junior high are twelve-and 13-year-olds from four disparate parishes: a black ghetto, a largely middle-class white neighborhood, a Mexican-American neighborhood and a Japanese community where the school enrolls many Buddhists. Similar consolidations have been suggested by a new archdiocesan-education board in Chicago, where ethnic parish lines sometimes place poorly...
...wrote starkly, "I have seared the streets," a sign of the new fad for ghetto toil, which is edging out mental-hospital work as an earnest of social conscience. On the other hand, artistic achievement still earns points. To that end, one Emory applicant used a particularly impressive approach: he sent an anthology of his poetry, urgently requesting its return because the only other copy was in the hands of a publisher. "I doubt that it was," says an Emory admissions man, "but it made a good story...