Word: earthness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group of men, the elected representatives of the people of America, vote themselves a salary increase of $12,500 and then turn around and cut appropriations directed toward the feeding of the hungry of our nation? America, the richest nation on earth, still votes billions to care for other peoples of the world while our own unfortunates-white, black, Indian and others-suffer. How can these same men go to bed each night with a full stomach in comfortable homes with this on their minds, or don't most of them give a damn...
...Every dollar sign in the article about salaries [Feb. 28] gives the lie to your fatuous conclusion regarding judgment. Judgment about selling and profit earns from $6,500 (ad copy) to $733,316 (auto manufacturing). Human life, human values and the future of the earth range from $2,400 (priest) to $200,000 (President...
...farmers and tradespeople in Belgium take mental patients into their homes and turn their whole town into a haven for malades? Clue: Money is not the answer. (See BEHAVIOR, "A Town for Outpatients.") - Why do U.S. astronauts feel so strongly about open communication circuits from orbiting spacecraft to earth, particularly when they are ill? (See SCIENCE, "A Spectacular Step Toward Lunar Landing...
Except for the "Stanford Speech," each of the pieces has been printed elsewhere. They range from a review of Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth to Eldridge's interview with Playboy, but whatever the subject, the formal topic is always over-shadowed by the man behind the words. Let me drop some clues...
...lesson a President learns is that America's power to control events in the world is limited." That is why LBJ only sent half a million men to Vietnam and kept the rest at home. He also learned about national defense. "The Soviet Union is the only nation on earth that possesses a destructive force similar to ours. Theirs is some what less in size, but the average human being would not be able to detect the difference in being hit by 30,000 tons of explosive or 15,000 tons of it." Presumbaly, however, there...