Word: developed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...burgeoning base of Chu Lai, where he awarded medals to soldiers of the America Division, Humphrey reminded his audience that "nation-building is our business," and warned that "unless we win it here, America doesn't have another chance." In sessions with Thieu and Ky, he urged development of sound political parties and an end to the corruption and wrangling that has so often disrupted Vietnamese political life. To one and all, he passed along his primary message: "The Americans are here so that the Vietnamese can develop their own country in their...
...nonmilitary fallout from secret work. A 26-acre antenna built at Stanford to help the U.S. learn how to detect enemy missile launches was used by Stanford Electrical Engineer Von R. Eshleman to bounce the first radar signals off the sun.* Classified research at Michigan helped Emmett N. Leith develop the new science of holography (see SCIENCE), which uses laser light to produce three-dimensional images with potential uses in art, television and industry. Says Leith: "The idea that you can close yourself off to these programs is pure ignorance...
...much that is brutal, we risk nothing less than our humanity if we fail to do so. The task of this less than allpowerful nation is to show to the world and to ourselves that, sensing our limitations, we know also our strength, and that we will husband and develop those strengths. The surest sign of whether we have done this will reside in the buildings and public places which we shall build in our time, and for which we will be remembered or forgotten in history
...hands beckon each dawn to the vulture and the hawk bound as I am to the rock that suffering has made mine. I see the trees breathing the black serenity of the dead and then the smiles-that don't develop-of the statues...
...also broadened the curriculum to include ethics seminars and other subjects, built a vigorous research program from scratch. And what was once a California rich man's school also took on an international scope. Out of a conviction that Stanford "has an obligation to help management education develop in other countries," he set up a Stanford-run business school in Peru in 1964, has brought foreign students to 15% of total enrollment at home...