Word: cautiousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Love at First Snapshot. Canny, cautious and quiet through all the intrigue of the seven governments that came and went until he and Ky took power in June 1965, Thieu stayed close to the shifting center of control. Though he was chief of state in the military government that ruled Viet Nam until last week, and thus was nominally No. 1, Thieu was overshadowed by the flamboyant Nguyen Cao Ky, who as Premier visibly ran things. Thieu seemed a man more private than public...
...risks," of course, on which the whole argument hinges. Though the air war might have accomplished more with less restraint, the President's cautious, controlled targeting system has served as a clarion notice to the world that the U.S. has no intention of provoking a wider war. Even so, the bombing campaign, as the committee notes, is "a highly important, integral and truly indispensable part of the overall strategy" of the Viet Nam war. On that point, at least, the Stennis Committee and the Johnson Administration are in complete agreement...
...Mary Elizabeth Switzer has spent 46 years in government, the last 17 as the highly successful head of the Vocational Rehabilitation Administration, which aids the handicapped. "She's a dynamo," says Gardner. Breezy and humane, she is also a tough in-fighter known in the cautious corridors of government for her outspoken skill in dealing with timid planners. "She's the most sophisticated bureaucrat in the business," says Connecticut Senator and former HEW Secretary Abe Ribicoff, "a do-gooder who really knows...
Nose-Nuzzling. The President, of course, commands far more information about Viet Nam than any of his critics, and he has considerable justification for cautious optimism. His field commanders report that the military effort is going on schedule. The enemy is now being so badly hurt in the South that it is Hanoi that should be beset by gloom. But this is beside the point. Johnson is still unable to communicate to the American people a sense of what the U.S. is doing in Viet Nam, how U.S. interests are at stake as well as South Viet...
...another strange facet of British urban life. Housewives were shown letting strange men into their homes who were wearing only milk-bottle tops as badges. Phony TV repairmen were admitted by women who did not even have sets. Interviewed later, the same women all insisted that they were very cautious about strangers-until they saw themselves on telltale film...