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...march of events. Let me, as the last step in this lengthy exercise, outline a feasible course of action which reduces our commitment in Vietnam to sensible proportions, protects the larger peace, conserves our national interest and, what could perhaps be more important, reflects the interest of the sadly beset and tortured people of this part of the world. And it is a policy that does not depend on the cooperation of Hanoi and the NLF, although should that be forthcoming all would be much eased...
...chief characters of her short stories were usually women, beset by the discontents of emancipation. If they had lovers, they were bored with them; if they had no lovers, they were frustrated without them; and it was always the dream, not the reality, that mattered most. Her best story is Big Blonde, about a woman who falls apart because she has no dream...
...family or tribe. Yet in the West, and particularly in Puritan America, parents rarely perform a major conscious role in this respect-although their unconscious attitudes profoundly influence their children. Parents are apt to feel strained, embarrassed, inadequate to the task. Many psychiatrists agree that parents are too often beset by their own sexual problems or guilt feelings to make good sex teachers. They can hardly imagine their children as anything but innocent, while the children can hardly imagine their parents engaged in sexual intercourse. Urbanization deprives children of what used to be learned through simple observation on the farm...
...Beset by a plethora of problems, the nation's steelmakers are pinning their hopes for the future on far-reaching technological advances. Accordingly, U.S. Steel, the industry leader, is now in the midst of a threeyear, $1.8 billion program to modernize its plants. With this stake in new production methods, U.S. Steel last week chose an up-from-the-mills operations man as its next president. He is Pittsburgh-born Edwin H. Gott, 59, the company's executive vice president for production, who on July 1 will become No. 2 man behind Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Roger...
...been good. Shell's earnings were up 7% to $66 million, Texaco's up 8.7% to a record $191 million, Mobil's up 9% to $93 million. Smaller Continental Oil had a 26.3% increase in profits to $31 million. Jersey Standard, biggest of them all, was beset by lower product prices abroad and increased costs, and managed only to equal last year's first-quarter earnings of $294 million despite a 7% rise in revenues. Gulf and Phillips Petroleum, on the other hand, did so well that they increased dividends...