Word: central
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Staff, offered a characteristically optimistic assessment of the war during a visit to the L.B.J. Ranch. The enemy "seems to be approaching a point of desecration," he told the President, and his forces "are deteriorating in strength and quality." Though hard fighting looms in northernmost I Corps, the Central Highlands and around Saigon, added Westy, "time is on our side." That, clearly, is what Hanoi believes-about its side...
...Agricultural laborers agitate for the union rights and reasonable wages won long ago by other workers. The antidraft movement has already prompted serious proposals for a more equitable Selective Service process. And in every layer of society are irrational nodules of protest that oppose no crying injustice, espouse no central cause but the assertion of individuality-even if that means anarchy...
...divided into as many as 60 semiautonomous districts with their own parent-dominated policy boards. Such local control, the panel argued, would make the schools more responsible to the needs of the community; it would also keep parents from blaming the city's board of education, a remote central power, for everything that goes wrong. The plan was enthusiastically endorsed by Mayor John Lindsay, who presented it to the legislature...
Married. David Rockefeller Jr., 26, whose dad holds the purse strings at the Chase Manhattan Bank; and Sydney Roberts, 24, daughter of a Penn-Central Railroad executive; in BalaCynwyd...
...half of the bill might well be Wild in the Streets. The thesis of the movie is that the U.S. is ripe for a teen-age entertainer-turned-politico, a theme explored recently in the English film Privilege. The central character is a delinquent (Christopher Jones) who caterwauls his way into the hearts of young America. An opportunistic Senator (Hal Holbrook) gets a law passed that enfranchises 15-year-olds. They elect Jones President, and suddenly, he-and-shedonism is for everyone under 35. Oldsters who have passed that milestone are packed into concentration camps and mind-blown with...