Word: directing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enjoy over Dienbienphu's doomed defenders, the Marines involved in the Con Thien Sitzkrieg are in something less than an enviable position. The 100 or so Communist guns that are trained on them with lethal accuracy are difficult to spot and almost impossible to wipe out except by direct hits. With ranges of up to 18 miles and guns as big as 152-mm. "bunker crackers," enemy ordnance plasters the Marine outposts almost at will. By firing only a few rounds and then quickly moving their artillery pieces or hiding them-in bunkers scooped out behind thick jungle foliage...
Finally, there is the possibility, however remote, of direct action against the University. Some of the teaching fellows originally interested in the Federation envisioned it as a union, with the power to bargain collectively and to strike. The group has thus far shied away from suggestion of unionism, since it was clear last winter that very few teaching fellows were willing to antagonize Harvard and jeopardize their own futures with a walkout. Even now, it is unlikely that enough teaching fellows have been convinced of the University's inflexibility to take drastic action. But there are other, less radical measures...
...student from the derogation of applied work that is so ubiquitous in the academic departments of the graduate school. The graduate departments tend to define their problems from within, even though they may get their funds from without, and tend to look down upon students with too direct a moral imperative, as well as too roving an intellectual eye. Thus in principle the law schools could become even more than at present locales for training in applied social science. Both the pressure and the possibility to move in this direction will come, I suggest, in part from that small group...
Actually, Ashmore's letter, written with help from top State Department officials and William Fulbright, was not markedly different from Johnson's. It advised Hanoi that there could be no U.S. bombing pause without "some reciprocal restraint" on its part. The President's letter, more direct and official, called for similar reciprocity...
...purposes, the government apparently undertook the project in the interest of national prestige without considering how many people will be using the plane--and under what conditions--by the time it is operational. The government originally decided to build the SST in the early '60's as a direct response to British-French plans for the supersonic Concorde. The Concorde was viewed as an important challenge to American technological superiority, so important that solutions to basic questions about the SST were deferred so that no time would be lost in catching up. But the problem is that the more money...