Word: everly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon Administration's proposed anti-ballistic missile system promises to be the most complex weaponry ever devised. Difficult as it is for laymen to comprehend the technical and strategic functions of the ABM, the great debate over whether the U.S. should deploy the Safeguard system is made infinitely more complicated by public uncertainty as to what the Russians may be planning in the way of offensive or defensive weapons. Last week, to bolster the Administration's case for ABM, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird made public some startling-and previously classified-information...
Playing with Fire. Exercise Focus Retina* was the latest in a series of airlift demonstrations that have whisked troops from home bases in the U.S. to hypothetical hotspots in Iran, Turkey, Greece, Norway and West Germany. It was also the longest distance that airborne troops had ever been flown to a parachute drop. A fleet of 44 C-141s and 33 smaller, slower propjet C-130 Hercules transports carried 2,500 men and 721 tons of supplies and equipment from the eastern U.S. to South Korea. Aside from the weather delay, there were few untoward hitches in the military exercise...
Meanwhile the other side cannot very well sit there and let the United States and the South Vietnamese governments do what ever hey want. The recent attacks, therefore, do not mean that the Viet Cong are making their last efforts to influence the peace talks. What it means is that since President Thieu defines peace as the death of all the communists and also of the "peace pretenders," and since his effort is backed directly or indirectly by the presence of a large foreign force with all this war-making gadgetry, the war must...
...there was any person more offensive to Reagan's concept of orderly campuses than Eldridge Cleaver, it would have to be Marcuse. For several months Reagan had fumed about Marcuse's role in fanning protest flames that the Regents' fire brigade was trying to put out. How can we ever stop these riots, Reagan would say, when we have that man Marcuse on one of our own campuses...
John Ballantyne '70, potential starting halfback on next year's football team, said, "Jack always used to say that any case he had was the strangest case he'd ever seen. This both disarmed and prodded the athlete who had the injury," Ballantyne added...