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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stop & Go. Indeed, another futile bombing pause aimed at improving the prospects for peace could have precisely the opposite effect. "With every cessation of bombing," observed New York Representative Emanuel Celler, "the hopes of our people for peace rose, only to be dashed by the negation of peace by the North Vietnamese." Because such frustration only intensifies demands for escalating the war, he said, "it is foolhardy to play with the emotions of our people by continued stop-and-go signs." To U.S. military planners, more than emotions are involved. A pause, said General William C. Westmoreland, the U.S. commander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Toughened Mood | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

With major portions of the nation's draft law due to expire June 30, Lyndon Johnson will send a message to Congress this week on that perennially prickly problem. By presidential directive, Johnson will put into effect these far-reaching changes by the end of next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Draft: FAIR Shake? | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...Luce's greatest postwar sorrow was the fall of China to the Communists in 1949. A staunch supporter and friend of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, Luce had nonetheless seen the Red handwriting on the wall. In 1946 he visited Nanking while the mission of General George Marshall was trying to effect a peace between the Kuomintang and the Communists. There, he went to see Chou Enlai, who was then the head of the Chinese Communist mission. Over steaming cups of tea, Chou professed to be weary of the negotiations, said that he would like to visit the U.S. "to study your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: He Ran the Course | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...traffic swing, and I know they're listening," says Frank Burany of Milwaukee's WTMJ. "A guy has to be clean out of his head not to appreciate it." Often, a watcher cannot do much to unsnarl traffic. Even so, the reports can have a tranquilizing effect on a harassed driver; at least someone knows of his plight and seems to care. After her husband was stuck in the blizzard of '67 for five hours, a Chicago housewife wrote radio station WGN's two watchers: "How can I tell you boys just how grateful our city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadcasting: Above It All | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

According to Mahoney, the buttons -- which ranged from "Kill a Commie for Christ" to "Sterilize LBJ: No More Ugly Children" -- "have a bad effect on kids...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: Cambridge Police Begin Square Button Struggle | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

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