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...Groundless as they might prove, the glimmerings of hope were remarkably prevalent last week. Bill Moyers, departing the White House press office for his new job as a newspaper publisher, said: "We can smell something. We don't know what it is, but there is something there." Maxwell Taylor, reporting to the President on his first trip back to Saigon since his 1965 resignation as U.S. ambassador there, agreed. "Something," he said, "is starting to move...
Though Rusk replied through Fanfani that he was "far from persuaded" that Hanoi had evinced "real willingness for unconditional negotiations," he left the Italian door ajar for further proposals. It was soon slammed rudely shut by Hanoi, which derided the entire exchange as "groundless fabrication...
...some Negroes advocate. More states' rights will no doubt disappear, though not nearly as many as some Southerners will claim they have lost. Basically, the Government still hopes that Southern justice will so improve itself that drastic federal intervention will not be necessary. The hope is not entirely groundless...
...your assessment of economic changes in the Soviet Union [Oct. 8], you write that "the Kremlin is admitting that Russia's economic engine is painfully sputtering." In confirmation, you advance the groundless argument about the Soviet Union's having lost its superiority over the U.S. in economic growth rates. There are indeed shortcomings in the Soviet economy. But that economy is developing more rapidly than envisaged by the Seven-Year Plan (1959-1965). The volume of industrial production increased 84% instead of 80% as planned. The average annual rate of industrial growth was 9.1%, more than double that...
Fears that hundreds of hungry Harvard men might swarm to Radcliffe to enjoy the wine and candlelight of Wednesday night interhouse have proved groundless...