Word: callings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Roosevelt and Kennedy possessed inherited wealth; and that even L.BJ. had Lady Bird. But will a President who has already gained so much from inflation, and who stands to gain so much more, feel impelled to fight it for the rest of us? Maybe "Nixon's surprise call for milder tax reform" isn't so surprising after...
...Administration outlined its gradual-withdrawal strategy last June, and will leave about 484,000 U.S. troops in Viet Nam. It will also leave Nixon well behind the self-imposed timetable he stumbled into when he announced that he hoped to beat former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford's call for disengagement of 100,000 men this year. Only half of the new withdrawal consists of combat troops. Most are from relatively inactive fighting areas, and thus their leaving will not really test the replacement capability of South Vietnamese forces -a key criterion in U.S. withdrawal plans (see THE WORLD...
...highlight the Administration's concern further, Nixon announced that he was suspending draft calls for November and December. He said that the 29,000 already scheduled to be called in October would be spread out over the next three months. Nixon explained that the partial withdrawal of U.S. troops from Viet Nam was the reason for the cutback, and that in December, if all goes well, he would review the programmed January call-up for possible cuts. In overall figures, however, Nixon's announcement means only 5,600 fewer draftees in 1969 than last year...
Revolution is a heavy word to use these days-especially for an election. But what else can one call what happened to Virginia last summer when...
Written by Hopper, Fonda, and Terry Southern, arch prostitute at large. Easy Rider inherits from the Western a large quantity of corn, what intellectuals like to call folk poetry, and a simplistic moral schema. There are good guys, like Captain America, drooled over in infatuated close-ups, and bad guys, the vahoos of the South and over-thirty America in general. The good guys are warding off the yahoos (a young commune member prays to God "Thank you for a place to make a stand.") Billy and Wyatt die because they are free, like all good guys. (Hanson says: "They...