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Last week, from southern Saigon to eastern Danang to the Cambodian bor der in the west, the allies were out in unprecedented numbers, aggressively hunting for an enemy to fight...
...confidence in the Administration but rather from success itself. There is little slack in the U.S. economy - and an anticipated boost of anywhere from $5 billion to $10 billion in defense spending for Viet Nam next year may well expand it to the limit. Shortages of skilled la bor are showing up in the construction, aviation and shipbuilding industries. As a result, draft boards throughout the country have been ordered to defer specialized defense workers...
This arrangement irritated American la bor unions, which pointed to domestic jobless rolls, and Congress allowed the permissive bracero law to lapse at the end of last year...
Artful Cajolery. With a dismal, cramped theater, a small orchestra bor rowed from the Boston Symphony, no resident chorus, and a budget that might be mistaken for lunch money at the Met, Sarah Caldwell, 38, is gaining a professional reputation as the best opera director in the U.S. Her company can give only one performance each of five productions this season, but her ardor and talent are so deep that everything she does is memorable. Her Lulu last month was a musical triumph for Bos ton, but / Puritani may have been the chef-d'oeuvre of her career...
...Jamaica Committee, on the other hand, attracted scientists and philosophers. Charles Darwin was passionately involved, even though his own theory of the survival of the fittest had been bor rowed by the imperialists. Darwin was joined by John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer and Charles Lyell. Thomas Henry Huxley was moved to sardonic eloquence: "I daresay Eyre did all this with the best of motives, and in a heroic vein. But if English law will not declare that heroes have no more right to kill in this fashion than other folk, I shall take an early opportunity of migrating to Texas...