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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decisions that the new Administration cannot defer is the selection of people to run and represent the Government. Last week Richard Nixon made several appointments: >Charles W. Yost, 61, an author and retired career diplomat, became the surprise choice as Ambassador to the United Nations. Yost is a Democrat, but not the sort of prominent party man that Nixon had been seeking to give his Administration a bipartisan touch. Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy and Sargent Shriver all turned down the assignment, which traditionally has had more prestige-and problems-than power. Shriver had seemed the likeliest prospect, but is understood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Old Faces and New | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

Mobile Monuments. Nor was there much the ICC could do about growing infiltration into the South. "If 550,000 U.S. troops cannot stop the infiltration," explains a Canadian today, "how could any international peace force with limited means be expected to control it?" In 1962, an Indian-Canadian majority report condemned Hanoi for infiltrating men and material into the South, while finding Saigon guilty of a "de facto military alliance" with the U.S. Both actions were in contravention of the 1954 agreements. Later, an Indian-Polish majority report inveighed against U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam. No one heeded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: How Not to Supervise a Peace | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

Besides plugging for a more direct, personalized approach to psychosis, Brand's book theorizes earnestly about the oral sources of anxiety. Mixing pseudo fact with pseudo fiction makes fairly lively reading. But fiction is a flimsy vehicle for advancing a medical thesis. You cannot prove a theory with a novel. Or rather-and this is what psychologist-novelists like Brand will never quite admit-you can pretend to prove just about any theory you like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Guest at the Games | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...Corporation cannot respond to the issues of "the real world," Galbraith said. The University has given little encouragement to those from Harvard who are working against the Vietnam war, he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J. K. Galbraith Attacks Harvard, Calls Structure an Anachronism | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...Faculty is so large and complex, Galbraith said, that a governing board of businessmen cannot possibly understand it. The Corporation no longer controls the distribution of funds. Instead, professors and deans apply directly to the federal government and to foundations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J. K. Galbraith Attacks Harvard, Calls Structure an Anachronism | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

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