Word: feds
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...millions of teenagers are to be housed, fed, clothed, and set to gainful employment is nowhere discussed. Who is to teach them, in Miss Mead's words, to be "citizens alert to the problems and responsibilities of nationhood in a rapidly changing world," no one knows. That it is right to teach them this euphemism for plain old Americanism is assumed...
Last week, in a show of strength that can only worsen Lyndon Johnson's al ready battered popularity in the South, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare decided to cut off all fed eral funds from six segregated school districts in Arkansas, Mississippi and South Carolina, bringing to 37 the number deprived of financial assistance in Old Confederacy states. It also is terminating aid, mostly student-loan and construction funds, to South Carolina's Baptist-run Anderson College, making it the first institution of higher learning to have its federal funds...
...another 185 segregated Southern school systems, eventually may end up denying funds to more than 400 districts serving a to tal of at least 1,000,000 children. At the same time, HEW is getting tough with segregated hospitals. It has scheduled hearings with an eye to ending all fed eral aid, including construction and research funds, to 17 or so Southern hospitals. Up to now, some 340 hospitals have been denied requests for new funds, notably Medicare payments, but none has been cut off from federal aid altogether...
Nine Dragons & Three Phases. The new doctrine is needed because the Viet Cong had long been brain-fed on Mao Tse-tung's legendary Three Phases to Communist triumph: 1) political activity, 2) guerrilla warfare, and 3) the final mop-up of the reeling enemy by large-scale fighting in conventional military formations. The U.S. intervened just as the Viet Cong were about to leave behind the rigors and hardships of Phase Two, and march out in strength to claim South Viet Nam. Since then they have tried periodic Phase Three attacks-and been badly mauled by American troops...
...sort is that it lacks any dramatic excuse for existence as soon as one imagines it being played by two white or two Negro partners. It has no bloodstream of its own but siphons its vitality from the headlines of the hour, just as an inert patient is intravenously fed plasma. Furthermore, the fact that two very special kinds of outcasts discover a common bond of humanity is not particularly convincing proof that the bridge of universal brotherhood is easy to build...