Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suddenly, death began stalking the nation's most creative leaders. Sudden ly, faceless men sought fame by mag-nicide, the killing of someone big. In April the murder of Martin Luther King ignited Negro riots in 125 cities that killed 46 people, injured 2,600, and required 55,000 troops to restore order. In June came the second Kennedy assassination, an unbelievable replay of the first, including a blind-chance killer, a meaningless motive, and national grief for a dramatic young leader cut down at the threshold of his powers...
...progress, a growing sense of social justice, a belief that federal cash would solve the nation's re maining problems. Yet a decade that began with a quest for moral grandeur has bogged down in the effort to keep society from exploding. Gone is the idea that a big power can safely fight a limited war against a small power. Instead, North Viet Nam forced the U.S. to spend $85 billion and lose moral prestige in much of the world. At home, vast New Dealish programs have failed to cure poverty; civil rights legislation has left Negroes more frustrated...
...Big News and Little Solutions
...Clearly, 1968 is already a year for the history books; if it becomes a really major entry, the reason will be that Americans failed to solve too many of the minor problems that eventually cause major explosions. In that sense, today's blaring headlines convey a warning: the big news is what isn't being done in a thousand little ways...
...Democrat from Florida, sponsored a special bill for construction of a veterans' hospital on land to be purchased from a corporation represented by his own law firm. Mississippi Senator James Eastland, a millionaire cotton farmer, fights strenuously for higher price supports for cotton. Though he vociferously opposes "big Government spending," Eastland received $129,997 last year in farm subsidies. Representative Arch Moore Jr., a Republican from West Virginia, belongs to a law firm that has Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. for a client. In the House, Moore "champions" restrictions on imports of competing glass...