Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favor U.S. policy are playing hero. "It's pretty difficult to demonstrate in favor of a war that you might have to fight," says one draftable pragmatist at Williams. And most students, if only by their immersion in humanities, suffer over the inhumanity of war. But the bulk of them also seem to find a higher order of responsibility in standing firm than they do in "packing up and going home...
...mailing, stamps especially selected for good centering and "freedom from tears and other flaws." For the gardener, the Agriculture Department has a list of nurseries that sell rare plants. The bird watcher can rejoice in the fact that the Commodity Credit Corp. is authorized to donate grain in bulk to feed migratory birds during periods of blizzard, flood and drought. All amateur railroaders should have a copy of the Army Map Service's No. 8024, which charts each and every track of each and every U.S. railroad...
Thus, at long last, Congress wound up a first session whose record of legislative achievement (see box) was unsurpassed in bulk or scope by that of any other Congress in U.S. history -even by Franklin Roosevelt's celebrated 73rd. In a heartfelt thank-you message to his congressional lieutenants, Lyndon Johnson predicted: "What you have done will find a shining residence in the history books...
Appropriately, the world's most mobile division (TIME, Sept. 24), the 1st Cavalry (Airmobile)-or "the First Team," as its men proudly style themselves-was among the first off the mark. Within two weeks after Johnson's announcement, the first of four supply ships carrying the bulk of the division's 428 helicopters was on its way, and on their heels came the first of the division's 16,000 men, commanded by Major General Harry William Osborn Kinnard. At the same time, an advance party of 1,000 men, 254 tons of equipment and nine...
...cable and phone, the reports pour into Washington; State's "copy and distribute" section makes 70,000 copies a day. Some ambassadorial reports shoot right through to Secretary Rusk, like neutrons through a brick wall. Some are pigeonholed, perhaps to be of use to businessmen or scholars. The bulk of the reporting is supposed to help, in small measure or large, to form U.S. foreign policy...