Word: happening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what should be learned instead? How can a nation with huge investments in underdeveloped countries--investments crucial to their economics--out-revolutionize the Communists, who have no investment to protect? Even if it were possible for an American President to advocate nationalization of those investments, what would happen then? Economic growth would be stunted since no further investment would be forthcoming. It is equally hard to follow de Gaulle's formula of staying out of the internal affairs of other countries, when it is clear that Russia and China have no intention of doing the same...
Reporting, not ranting at the President, is the name of the game, wrote Hearst's National Editor Frank Conniff last week. "We happen to think the White House news staffers are perfectly capable of covering their beat, most of them being first-class newspapermen. And if they can't or aren't, it's the fault of the editors who sent them there, not of a President, who really shouldn't be expected to understand the complicated psyche of a newspaperman...
Added Pressure. The Army calls its new hospital MUST, from Medical Unit Self-Contained Transportable. Impressed observers could suggest only one potential drawback. What would happen under a strafing attack? Would a few bullet holes cause leaks in the walls and let the whole pneumatic construction collapse? The Army had not overlooked the obvious; added air pressure can compensate for most holes...
Film spoke directly to his own experience; it rendered the speed and randomness with which things happen to modern men: "You pick up the phone in your office and hear that somebody has died." Films, lacking the conventional devices of the theatre, have to deal with what Roemer calls "this contiguity of unrelated affects." Nothing But A Man, for instance, switches without warning from inside to outside, from a home to a factory, from one city to another. "I had not though of my life as heroic, at least in any classical sense. But film made me aware...
...feels that the Institute ought to have some resident "junior fellows"--young men from journalism or from private life, not career government servants. Then there should be young men who have worked in politics and are likely to embark on elective careers--"the Bill Moyerses who don't happen to be counsel to the President," as Neustadt...