Word: forward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent months that the dominant theme of the U.S. presidential campaign may not be Viet Nam, the economy, or any one of a score of infinitely complex problems. Instead, it will probably be the elusive issue of "law and order." Last week all three major candidates vied to put forward their own shadings of a law-and-order policy, almost to the exclusion of other questions facing a troubled nation. Once, the term might have been used in all innocence to describe the minimal conditions necessary to maintain a democratic society. No longer. Today it has become a loaded catchall...
...exempt from any of the budget cuts dictated by Congress this year. Though the ABM system is primarily designed to protect the U.S. against Chinese ICBMs, which are now said to be at least a year behind schedule, Clifford insisted that "current developments" force the U.S. to "press forward as planned with the Sentinel system." Opponents fear that this may even mean the eventual revival of the once-proposed (and rejected) larger ABM shield directed against Soviet missiles as well...
That euphoric vision of undergraduate education is put forward by Mayhew in Campus 1980 (Delacorte Press; $6.95), a collection of future-oriented essays by 17 U.S. educators. No romantic, Mayhew bases his predictions on trends already discernible. He believes that technology will help to bring about the new accent on the individual needs of students. National admissions centers will match students by computer with the college that best suits their interests, allow them to move freely from campus to campus. Short-range jets will enable professors to serve consortia of small colleges that agree to share faculty and facilities...
...become increasingly difficult to think of him in such terms as leader, fighter, innovator?which are precisely the terms in which he thinks of himself. He argues these days, urgently and almost desperately, that he is too his own man; that he can too be a strong, forward-looking President. Perhaps. But in order to accomplish that, he must recapture the spirit of his youth. After years of deferring to the lords of the Senate, after his service as Johnson's Boswell, he will find the search particularly difficult...
...began to brighten perceptibly as the balloting got under way and moved him ever closer to the nomination. The total mounted toward the needed 1,312. "Oregon is zilch," said Humphrey; his fellow Minnesotan, Senator Eugene McCarthy, had won its 35 votes in the May primary. Humphrey leaned forward expectantly, then broke into a wide grin as Pennsylvania put him over the top with 103¾ votes. "Pennsylvania started it and Pennsylvania put us over!" said the jubilant Humphrey, recalling that the state's show of support last spring gave him an all but unbeatable lead...