Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crucial Months. It isn't working. For all the President's intelligent instincts, last week-the worst for Nixon since taking office-showed how easily history can repeat itself. Nixon had tried to fine-tune his war policy by modulated maneuvers, but suddenly the home front reverted to a battle for the weary hearts and minds of Americans. There are no lines from the White House that link up with the Vermont Avenue headquarters of the Viet Nam Moratorium Committee, whose first nationwide demonstration, scheduled for Oct. 15, appears to be gathering momentum beyond all expectations. Nixon cannot...
...allowed the partisan and the tough infighter to reappear. Meeting with Republican legislative and party leaders, he declared that he did not intend to be the first American President to lose a war (see story page 17). He railed against those who would "bug out." He talked of the crucial nature of the next "couple of months." That meeting placed Nixon shoulder to shoulder with L.B.J. in an unwinnable fight against those whom Johnson once described as "nervous Nellies." Nixon's presidency may never be the same again...
...Republican legislative leaders emerged swinging from the conferences. Nixon had mentioned the crucial nature of the next "couple of months," and Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott predicted that "you will have a new situation" if criticism subsides for 60 days. What that situation might be, or why Hanoi would be influenced by such a temporary, artificial hold-down of protest, was not explained. Senator John Tower suggested that if the Communists do not become more reasonable "over the next few days," the U.S. should consider resuming the bombing of North Viet Nam. Representative Bob Wilson, chairman of the House Republican...
...Besides writing the screenplays for Hiroshima, Mon Amour and Une Aussi Longue Absence she also attended the birth of the anti-novel movement, making such notable contributions to the genre as Moderato Cantabile and The Sea Wall. In her directorial debut, she has unfortunately committed one rather crucial error. She seems to have been the only one who didn't get her own joke...
...extremely crucial games will be played this weekend. Brown and Yale will meet on Saturday in a game that should determine the chances of a Bruin comeback. Here in Cambridge. Harvard fans will get an opportunity to judge the strength of their team against a Columbia squad that would like to be a winner rather than a spoiler...