Word: ende
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...today more reactionary than is healthy. ROTC has not worked because 1) those students inclined toward the military are the ones who join the program, 2) the constraints of the military system extinguish whatever liberalism there might be and 3) those who maintain their liberalism leave at the end of their short commitments. If Curtis LeMay, an archconservative, is a product of the liberalizing forces of ROTC, then you have pointed out its failure. Our Government must review the entire military system to make it relevant to the principles of democracy. Then a volunteer army could successfully find the needed...
...many, it looked last week as if the new President's honeymoon was ending with his first tough decision. That judgment seems premature-but the beginning of the end of forbearance and tolerance is probably in sight. Nixon's gamble is that the ABM will prove technically workable within the next five years. More vital than its defensive value, perhaps, is how important any ABM system may prove to be in dealings with the Russians on such urgent questions as arms control and Viet...
Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird returned last week from a four-day tour of Viet Nam, and it became known that he was considering pulling out as many as 50,000 troops before the end of the year. Nixon obviously would like to do so, but, for the immediate future, at least, he quashed that notion. "In view of the current offensive on the part of the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong," he said at his press conference, "there is no prospect for a reduction of American forces in the foreseeable future." He was still more abrupt when...
...incomparable frontier paintings, have been banished from the upstairs corridor. Pieces from the White House vermeil collection have replaced Lady Bird Johnson's personal collection of porcelain birds, and a wooden gavel inscribed to the President, a gift from the Mayor of Vincennes, Ind., rests on an end table...
Many Fingers. Foreman's formidable advocacy eventually convinced his own client. "I never expected or hoped or had an idea," the lawyer confessed, "that I would be able to accomplish anything but save this man's life." To this end, Foreman did his best to scotch talk of a conspiracy, fearing that it would hurt his client's case...