Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STATESMAN. Our foreign policy must be designed to secure a just and lasting peace. This can best come about when nations deal with one an other on a basis of mutual trust and understanding. This must be coupled with complete frankness and determination as to objectives and courses of action...
...life-or-death question of how the U.S. would come out in a thermonuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union has a nagging habit of cropping up shortly before Election Day. In 1960, the Democrats' misleading charges of a "missile gap" served to confuse and alarm voters. This year it was Richard Nixon who sought a last-minute advantage. "The present state of our defenses is too close to peril point," Nixon charged in a radio speech, "and our future prospects are in some respects downright alarming. We have a gravely serious security...
...Israelis have already come close to a direct clash with the Russians. During September's artillery exchange, they refrained from hitting the Suez oil refinery-rebuilt since Israeli artillery destroyed it last year-for fear of hitting Russian technicians. This time, the Israelis aimed their guns at the refinery anyway, setting fire to three oil storage tanks...
...must provide their own uniforms, bedding and food. The reason they do it is clear enough. Says one, Le Chi, a middle-aged maker of mosquito nets: "I protect my city. If during Tet we had had a self-defense, the V.C. would not have come in. Now they can't burn our houses again...
...Berkeley, at least, all the dire predictions about the adverse effects of bus sing have not come true. Sullivan was warned that the program would turn Berkeley into a black city; instead, white enrollment in the schools actually rose during the past three years, reversing a 20-year trend. He says that this has happened because the schools provide "something exciting at the end of the bus ride" in the form of better education. He has introduced smaller classes, more guidance counselors for troubled students, sophisticated audio-visual aids. A study by the California legislature last year showed that Berkeley...