Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wake of Elsie's recent heart attack which left her unable to work full time in the delicatessen. In an interview in Arlington, Elsie said that her doctor had said that she could continue to work a few hours a day as a supervisor but that the fast pace of serving customers would be extremely dangerous for her heart...
...construct, and his emphasis on the quality of life, while it would have perhaps sounded more natural coming from John Kennedy, introduced a refreshing note. "The Great Society asks not how much, but how good; not only how to create wealth but how to use it; not only how fast we are going, but where we are headed. It proposes as the first test for a nation: the quality of its people." Johnson's speech, in the view of Government Professor Samuel Beer of Harvard, takes politics out of its previous formula. Says Beer: "During the New Deal right...
...wants to stop far short of that and may run into rugged opposition to holding the cuts down to his figure. But Albert is slightly optimistic, says: "I do think something can be worked out." The President also wants Congress to ensure quickie tax-cut procedures that would allow fast-but temporary-action should a recession appear in the offing. Well aware that the legislative branch is savagely jealous of its taxation powers, Johnson wisely planned to leave the authority for quick cuts with the Congress rather than ask for the power himself-as John Kennedy had done when...
Hidden Honeycomb. The running fight around the Catholic refugee village 40 miles southeast of Saigon (ironically, Binhgia translates as "Peaceful House") was a testimonial to Viet Cong cunning. Government paratroopers discovered one of their adversaries' main camps. Circular in shape, it was crisscrossed with trenches camouflaged by fast-growing yam plants and running for hundreds of yards among concealed barracks roofed with thatch. Below the redoubt were huge, man-made caverns 60 feet underground, honeycombed with tunnels. At one point, eight tunnels converged into a large subterranean room that was complete with tables, chairs and Viet Cong flags...
...includes a hefty measure of what his more radical adversaries within the movement damn as "establishment groups": The churches, the unions, the NAACP, the Liberal Democrats. In fact, the coalition is so broad that it can seek gradual reform, but hardly social revolution. If the reforms come thick and fast enough, King may hold most of the Negro leaders in line behind him. But the signs aren't hopeful. Revolutions have a momentum of their own, and a way of passing old leaders...