Word: givens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Self-Study. The day after Beckman's appearance, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird issued an apologetic statement in which he said: "I am determined to ensure that full and accurate information on C-5A procurement, and all other procurement matters, is given to the Congress and to the public promptly. I am also determined to ensure that past mistakes in procurement of this transport aircraft will not be repeated...
...serving a one-year sentence for selling unregistered stock. Three months after taking his oath, says LIFE, Fortas received $20,000 from the Wolfson Family Foundation, ostensibly for advising the foundation on philanthropic affairs. Fortas returned the money after Wolfson was indicted on criminal charges; the reason given by Fortas' former law partner was that the Justice had been too busy with court affairs to do anything for the foundation...
...proposal for government decentralization spawned a host of local antagonisms from communities that stood to lose by it. Nancy, the historic capital of Lorraine, was incensed that smaller Metz, a city of Germanic language and origin, would become the capital of its region, the new Lorraine. Though they had given De Gaulle 75% of their vote in 1962, the citizens of Nancy delivered an angry 60% of their votes against him in the referendum...
Then there were pocketbook issues at stake. The French bourgeoisie, which has never altogether given up the notion that the only safe place for silver is in a sock, was angry and upset over France's rapid inflation and high taxes and the lingering uncertainty about the value of the franc. In the two weeks immediately preceding the election, small businessmen staged two strikes over the tax issue?the first in their history. Big businessmen, on the other hand, were concerned about shrinking profits and the "participation" that De Gaulle had promised their workers following the chaos of last spring...
...compromise. Of course it does, but the greater risk is a government without intellectuals. Who wants, for example, a CIA run entirely by soldiers and policemen? In 1965 Robert Wood, head of the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, considered the problem that such involvement means for intellectuals: "Given the uncertainties of actual influence possessed, its effectiveness and appropriateness, and the welter of motivations that compel the intellectual, it is not surprising that his present role is tentative and tormented." Now that he is back in Cambridge after three years as Under Secretary of the Department of Housing...