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Dates: during 1960-1969
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L.B.J. He has been a close friend and counselor of Johnson's ever since. After John Kennedy's election, Vance moved to the Pentagon as general counsel to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, became Secretary of the Army a year later. In that post, and afterward as Deputy Defense Secretary, he worked as McNamara's partner in revitalizing the Army and instituting other reforms...
Since coming to France in February 1961 as head of a two-man trade delegation, Bo has maintained close relations with the Quai d'Orsay, into which he bobs as regularly as a cloisonne yoyo, and also enjoys a following among Latins and Arabs, with whom he trades revolutionary lore. He comes by it honestly, for Bo is one of the Viet Minh's "old comrades." As a Viet Minh major, he was wounded and captured by the French, who even then were impressed. Born July 9, 1917, in a Mekong Delta town 150 miles from Saigon...
...times the sea was steely purple, stained; at others, under a close warm rain sky, the no-color of dirty wash; choppy rows hurried in from the horizon to be delivered and disposed of in the lick and slide at the shore. Piet stopped to pick up angel wings, razor clam shells, sand dollars with their infallibly etched star and their considerate airhole for an inhabiting creature Piet could not picture...
...case, Roxbury hardly views cooperation with the school system as an effective way of aiding the ghetto. The school system has been lobbied, advised, protested for years and the need remains--in the classroom, close to home, where the only hope for change seems...
...survey technique--made one thing very clear: the survey's telescopic view will never be enough. Researchers must study education at the microscopic level--in the ghetto classroom--to learn what is really wrong with ghetto schools. The small informal community classroom offers just as much opportunity for close and productive study as the stale, standardized school room. And in any case, working in the ghetto more and more means working with it or not working...