Word: classicize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DOLITTLE. The Hugh Lofting children's classic about a pleasingly plump physician who talks to animals has been transformed into a film about a lean ectomorph (Rex Harrison) who treats them with all the intimacy of a Harley Street internist ordering up a set of X rays...
...fact that only 1.7% of those deferred for college have enough love of country to volunteer. Every President who fought our wars has been swept into office. Start with Andrew Jackson, then Lincoln, then peace-at-any-price Wilson, who changed his mind and fought, and F.D.R. and the classic example of Harry Truman...
...Rules. But what to do? The Navy reacted in classic style by ordering the 85,000-ton nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise to show the flag in the Sea of Japan. En route at the time to Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin after a stop in southern Japan, the carrier headed north instead, accompanied by the nuclear frigate Truxtun and several other escort vessels. Six or seven other warships put out of Yokosuka later in the week, presumably bound for the same area. Shadowing Enterprise, sometimes at the dangerously close range of 800 yards, was the Soviet trawler Gidrolog...
...traffic throughout Viet Nam. Other allied units shifted nearer the scene of the impending battle to be ready if needed, including a 1st Cavalry (airmobile) brigade helicoptered to Phu Bai, only 45 minutes' flying time from Khe Sanh. For what looked more and more like the first classic conventional battle on a major scale of the Viet Nam war, Westmoreland has deployed some 45,000 men to meet the 40,000 North Vietnamese closing in on Khe Sanh...
...most recent dean hunts. Succeeding Griswold at the Law School is Derek Curtis Bok, 37, son of a former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice, an authority on labor law and a member of the university's faculty since 1958. Co-author (with Harvard's Archibald Cox) of the classic textbook on labor law, Bok has had experience as a strike mediator and is well liked by his students, who consider him less frostily distant than Griswold. Heading the Divinity School is Stockholm-born Krister Stendahl, 46, an ordained Lutheran minister who is regarded...