Word: constructive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OUTSIDE the White House, carpenters banged together sturdy planks of high-grade pine to construct the inaugural-parade reviewing stand. With far less noise and motion, the man who will take the salute on Jan. 20 was also building, and also using first-rate materials. President-elect Richard Nixon, having picked most of his administrative staff, began to select policymakers...
...South Carolina Baptist Convention voted to allow Charleston's Baptist College to negotiate for $2.5 million in federal loans to construct a library and a dormitory. Virginia's Baptist leaders decided to let the trustees of individual institutions determine whether or not to take Government grants. At Fort Worth, delegates to the Baptist General Convention of Texas voted 2,960 to 40 to cut its official ties with the Baylor University College of Medicine in Houston. The purpose was to let the school-which has Heart Surgeon Michael De-Bakey on its faculty-receive state and federal grants...
...politically feasible for State government officials, even if they wanted to, to allocate the sums of money needed out of their tax revenues. That option does not exist for the governors. One of the first moves of the post-revolutionary government in the Soviet Union was to construct an elaborate subway system so that Moscow today has the most palatial and opulent subway stations in the world--they look like opera houses inside. This is a highly meaningful symbolic difference...
That the old Democratic coalition is broken has become a political cliche. The question for the immediate future is how the party will attempt to construct a new coalition in view of the wholesale defection of the South, the disaffection of many middle-income families, the revolt of many liberals and young voters...
...first strategic decisions facing the next President will be whether or not to construct a "thick" defensive network of anti-ballistic missiles that might cost $40 billion. Humphrey doubts the wisdom of doing that; Nixon has expressed no firm position. Another national concern is the nuclear nonproliferation treaty-an attempt to stop other countries, including some erratic new ones in Asia and Africa, from building and brandishing atomic bombs. To prevent such possible nuclear blackmail, Humphrey urges quick U.S. ratification of the treaty. Nixon has called for a delay because of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. His critics point...