Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Urban Crisis. The crisis of the American urban complex, with its rotting center-city core and its increasing demands for intelligent planning as well as financial aid, was another central theme of the Governors' talks. Said Connecticut Democrat John Dempsey: "Connecticut as a whole can be a healthy society only if we join in a concerted effort to improve the quality of urban life." He recommended a new Department of Municipal Affairs, as well as new measures to combat air-and-water pollution and discrimination in jobs and housing. And New York's Rockefeller, whose bailiwick includes...
...heir-apparent, Lin Piao, pushed the resolution though the Central Committee last December 15. Fists and possibly knives and guns have crashed back into Chinese history this week because Mao and Lin have decided to give the Cultural Revolution some muscle as it hits the countryside. The muscle is provided by the "Red Rebel Workers," a post-adolescent version of the youthful Red Guards who have been pushing the cultural Revolution in the cities since summer. The Red Rebel Workers are factory hands, union men, who have been judged untainted by the technical, urban, non-ideological values Mao detects...
...Central Committee yesterday called for the army's support in the current struggle; This reflects both the seriousness of the crisis, and Mao' confidence that they army is on his side. The military's loyalty to Lin, a popular Defense Minister, should keep the country together, barring unpredictable events...
...parents? "The generational gap is wider than I've ever seen it in my lifetime," says Harvard's David Riesman. Predicts Britain's Leslie Paul, whose autobiography gave the phrase "angry young man" to the world in 1951: "The relations of the generations may become the central social issue of the next 50 years, as the relations between the classes have been for the past half-century...
Beehives. Eighteen hours after the Christmas truce ended, the Communists struck in earnest. Their target was a 100-ft.-high hill near Bong Son on the edge of the Central Highlands where a U.S. battery of 155-mm. howitzers and another of 105 mm. had been dug in for a month. Three platoons of the 1st Cavalry were on duty defending the twelve big guns and their crews. Under cover of evening rain, elements of North Viet Nam's 22nd Regiment slithered up the hill, snipping the detonating wires of Claymore mines strung round the camp, and neutralizing trip...