Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recommendation. Many ranking officers are up in arms over Westmoreland's inquisition. Says a friend and brother officer of Donaldson: "He is the least likely man to have knowingly shot a civilian. They have picked the wrong man here, and those charges are preposterous." Another general was more blunt: "What is Westmoreland doing to the Army? He's ruining it. Why? To save himself...
...Rate Control. This staggering overdose of nostalgia does not bother Beurt SerVaas, 52, the editor and publisher whose name is the most unfamiliar thing about the new Post. A blunt, bouncy Indianapolis industrialist who has made a specialty of saving failing companies (and making millions in the process), SerVaas manages a mishmash mini-empire that includes three steel-forging plants, a chemical company, an employment agency, a business college, another small publishing operation-and now the venerable Curtis Publishing Co. (Post, Holiday, Jack and Jill). SerVaas picked up control of the company at cut-rate prices last year from...
Blatchford often finds young audiences confronting him with the blunt question, "Why do you work for those guys?" He concedes that "not everybody trusts this Administration," but lately, under his leadership, the Peace Corps has come out of a long slump in attracting volunteers: there have been 21,638 applicants thus far in 1971, v. 19,022 in all of 1970. The various agencies that Nixon wants to include in Action now have a combined budget of $160 million. In order to make the consolidation of volunteer organizations more attractive to members of Congress, Nixon offered an extra $20 million...
VISTA has been a particular target for conservative criticism. Richard Nixon plainly wants to put his own stamp on the voluntary agencies begun by his Democratic predecessors, and the merger into Action, by absorbing VISTA into a larger, less controversial whole, may blunt the attack. Some think that the reorganization is actually a Machiavellian maneuver by the President to gut VISTA and the Peace Corps, although both programs can continue effectively if the Administration really wants them to. Shuffling bureaucracies about means nothing in itself...
...FACT, Kissinger's use of the NSSM series to tie up Washington's civil service was a blunt, cynical attempt to alter the effectiveness of the National Security Council set-up. The options system had been designed to curtail the influence of the bureaucracy, not to remove it; but when the dust had cleared, the Cabinet departments had been rendered virtually ineffective in the choosing of policy. By foreclosing one source of ideas, Kissinger had eliminated the options that would derive from it. The result was that his own office had been measurably strengthened...