Word: belief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the inequity in the present pay scale for draftees could be elimi- nated, and reasonable pay differentials maintaned among servicemen, with pay increases that would total between $2 billion and $3 billion per year. We recommend such increases on grounds of fairness and in the belief that a democracy with a GNF of over half a trillion dollars, and with income-tax rates lower than those prevailing before Vietnam, has no compelling need to use conscription to keep military wages down...
...activity. Equally famous is the hauteur of the Glee Club which, as one member put it, is as much Club as it is Glee; or of WHRBies who walk around wearing "Mozart Forever," and "Back to Bach" buttons but who never deign to attend concerts, in the apparent belief that music produced by plastic discs and dials and buttons is superior to that of live performers...
...Administration seemed fully aware of the relevant parallel between Korea and Vietnam; it avoided movements of troops toward the 17th parallel and other acts which might threaten the destruction of the Hanoi government. Now, however, faced with Hanoi's stubborn resistance, and in light of the Administration's mistaken belief that victory in the "test case" of Vietnam can end this type of "aggression" in this century, U.S. policy has begun to develop a logic and momentum of its own. As each escalation fails both to break Hanoi's will and to provoke China's entry, the Administration first hopes...
...bill also narrows the basis for conscientious objection, Kennedy claimed. An aide said its provisions make orthodox religious belief a prerequisite of CO classification...
...enterprises. He is slightly hysterical in denouncing the U.S. military establishment as a megamachine and "the minds now in charge of [it] have already proved as open to ... corrupt fantasies and psychotic breakdowns as those of the Bronze Age kings." The myth of the machine is based on a belief that the megamachine is "absolutely irresistible and ultimately beneficial" as well as beyond resistance. Not so, says Mumford. The benefits of the Machine Age are a fraud. Mechanized production makes work dull...