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...long war. "Viet Nam is a nasty place to fight," said Baldwin. "But there are no neat and tidy battlefields in the struggle for freedom; there is no 'good' place to die. And it is far better to fight in Viet Nam-on China's doorstep-than fight some years hence in Hawaii, on our own frontiers." The same day Baldwin's piece appeared, the Times issued a rebuttal: "Such an approach discards any pretense that our objective in Viet Nam is to protect the Vietnamese people...
...time I've ever cringed to see schoolteachers get a pay increase," she says. Working an average 14-hour day, seven days a week, Miss Bonnie still managed to get to the bedside of a sick child of a staff member-and to show up at the right doorstep in town when the school needed help from the community. Promoting higher taxes, she got local authorities to buy 227 acres for a campus eight miles northeast of Charlotte and build a plant worth $3,000,000. With skillful lobbying from Charlotte, the 1963 general assembly was persuaded...
...talent of his friend Bill Inge and assured us that a play produced by Inge-art will carry us through the trivial details of everyman's day into that playpen of pain and love, the human heart, and that it will do this miraculously, suddenly droppings us at the doorstep of inner truth just when we thought that the real problem was Mama's bank account and not Mama's need for love. And there was a time (Come Back Little Sheba, Picnic, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs) when Bill Inge may have had the little lamp...
...Communism in this hemisphere. I don't see frankly how any President of the United States in 1965 can sit in the White House and send Americans to die against Communists across the world in Viet Nam and take any serious risk of another Communist state on your doorstep...
...Crime on your doorstep tomorrow...