Word: fillings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aggression also reflects Hanoi's increasing control over the whole war in the South. With recruitment of fresh Viet Cong growing increasingly difficult, more and more North Vietnamese are infiltrating the South in order to fill the ranks. Westmoreland estimates that the average Viet Cong main-force unit is now 10% North Vietnamese. NVA units have lately been found operating as far down the command ladder as squad-size in hamlets. And two weeks ago in the Delta, hitherto the exclusive preserve of indigenous Viet Cong, the first North Vietnamese soldier was captured...
...imports from China in 1967, and several hopeful foreign buyers at the recent Canton trade fair came back emptyhanded. Since many Chinese factories were shut down all during 1967 by the revolution's upheavals and others have unexplainedly closed in recent weeks, the Chinese were simply unable to fill the foreigners' orders...
...extent of potential draft resistance among seniors, but more than half the class did not respond. Into what category are these non-responders likely to fall? Can anyone doubt that it will be into the category of those not sufficiently hostile to the war and the draft to fill out the document? Or, to put it another way, is it likely that anyone who does feel strongly against the draft would fail to take this opportunity to express himself? In either case, the inevitable conclusion is that the vast majority of those not answering the questionnaire do not hold...
...which included 15 queries on the draft and the war was administered to seniors in House dining halls during three consecutive days in mid-December. Each student, as he entered the lobby, was asked if he was a senior. If he admitted that he was, he was requested to fill out the poll--his name was checked off a master list in order to prevent repeats. No more than ten students in all of the Houses refused to fill out the questionnaire. Michael Useem 2G computed the poll; it was written and directed by James E. Shapiro...
Quart for a Gallon. S.U.N.Y., of course, is not alone in having unsolved troubles. All across the U.S., the massive expansion of state systems has created massive problems. The situation, says U.C.L.A. Chancellor Franklin Murphy, is "like a man trying to fill a gallon jug with not much more than a quart of water." Armies of undergraduates are demanding more teaching attention; at the same time, governments are pleading for more research, which requires new emphasis on graduate studies, and the cities are begging for ideas to help check their spiraling decay...