Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crucial Issues. Not surprisingly, Viet Nam was the question on everyone's mind. Given a list of top issues, 69% said they would choose a candidate partly according to his views on the war, 55% on his ability to manage the economy and-.perhaps reflecting the credibility gap attributed to Johnson-41% on the candidate's sincerity and conviction. Since New Hampshire is largely made up of small towns in a rural setting, only 25% thought "crime and violence in the streets" was a crucial issue...
What the country urgently needs, concluded the commission, is a program "equal to the dimension of the problems." That program must be organized "for high impact in the immediate future to close the gap between promise and performance; it must undertake new initiatives and experiments that can change the system of failure and frustration that dominates the ghetto and weakens our society...
...Engineer Leon Elder wants a master's degree in management; last spring he budgeted $12,000 a year in savings to support his family, quit his job and enrolled full time at U.C.L.A. Elder happily matches report cards with his children ("A great way to bridge the generation gap"), foresees a higher-paid business future-or he may teach...
...some, working for McCarthy is a stop-gap measure. "If he loses and then supports Johnson," one Harvard canvasser said "then I'll probably work for the Resistance or the draft union." For others, canvassing has convinced them of the futility of working within the political system. They mention the closed-mindedness, the selfishness, and the apathy of the people they meet...
...cultural gap persists, it is not surprising. North Vietnam has been historically an elitist society, dominated by mandarins even more estranged from the peasantry than their better-known Chinese counterparts. And Hanoi, while destroying traditional class lines, has helped replace the old elite with another by consistently favoring its heavy industry and relying on its urban classes to lead the country out of poverty...