Word: drains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still not inevitable that the administration take us down the drain wrapped in the flag. You can write to your Congressman and Senators and to your home-town newspaper editor. Whatever your view, this particular Reading Period seems like a good time to express it. John K. Fairbank '29 Director East Asian Research...
...first of these changes reflects an attempt to drain much of the political clout from the Community Action program, ont of the most controversial components of the federal antipoverty package. In addition to financing local agencies like Action for Boston Community Development, Community Action funds have been used for community organizing among the poor -- building neighborhood associations that could effectively represent the demands of the poor and mobilize protest if the establishment refused to comply...
Bright Young Men. Two factors account for the present pilot pinch: low training quotas in the early 1960s, plus the serious drain imposed by the U.S. civilian airlines, which need 6,000 new pilots every year to man rapidly expanding jet fleets and get 85% of them from the Navy and Air Force (which spend more than $150,000 to train each of them). "Look," explains one frustrated Air Force general, "we send a guy to Viet Nam for a year. Then he's supposed to be reunited with his family, but he's sent to Spain...
...whole South Arabian Federation, which includes not only Aden but 16 sheikdoms. The trouble is that Aden's link with the Federation was a shotgun marriage that neither the Adenis nor the sheikdoms want any part of once they win independence. Aden fears that the sheikdoms will drain off the relative prosperity it enjoys as a major world port. The sheiks claim that they do not have enough say in the Federation government, and that Aden has too much. The government, a collection of moderates installed by the British, is unpopular with the Adenis themselves, whose sentiments are divided...
...pretty sound idea. Two days later, President Rudolph A. Peterson of California's Bank of America went even fur ther. In a talk to the New York Chamber of Commerce, he argued that "as a last resort" the U.S. should refuse to sell gold if the gold drain becomes "intolerable." He added that "there is no overwhelming reason why we should sustain the dollar value of gold. We may have to reconsider our gold-buying policy...