Word: help
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secretary of the Treasury, George Humphrey, disavowed his budget as too big. The economy slipped toward the worst recession since 1932. After a century of neglect, the problems of the nation's blacks burst forth. In 1954, the Supreme Court finally outlawed school segregation. Though Ike did not help to implement the decision, he did act when he had to, sending troops into Little Rock, Ark., in 1957 to enforce a court-ordered desegregation decree. In October 1957, Russia's success with Sputnik I cast a pall of self-doubt over the entire country?a mood that was ultimately...
...very little faith," he would say in the tones of Ecclesiastes that the next decade would find unacceptable, "in the ability of law to change the human heart or eliminate prejudice." Much as Eisenhower's Abilene background strengthened him for the great tests of war, it did little to help him understand the urban society he governed. In the era of Keynesian economics, his obsession with a balanced budget seemed archaic. In those days there were, to be sure, only hints of the bitter black-white struggle and the sometimes frightening war between the generations, only the beginnings...
...might have had in the Safeguard system had already been undermined by Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard, who turned up to testify armed with a raft of charts and diagrams showing Russia's growing threat as an 1CBM power. When he had finished explaining them with the help of a pointer, Senator Albert Gore asked to borrow his "wand" and produced some homemade charts of his own. The resulting debate on "overkill"-nuclear capability beyond that needed to assure the total destruction of an enemy-turned primarily on the difficulty of determining a nation's future offensive...
Urban life today is such that at least a third of the past decade's migrants in Chicago and other cities tell pollsters that they want to go home. Clearly, they cannot return until rural conditions improve. As Agriculture Secretary Clifford Hardin has proposed: "We must help create in rural America adequate job opportunities, adequate educational, library and other cultural facilities, adequate medical and dental services and all the other essentials of a good life...
...larger American society. Tomorrow may bring more strife-or peaceful racial pride. Whatever the outcome, more and more local black leaders are bent on building black establishments and seeing that no one, black or white, burns them down. White Americans are well advised to provide every ounce of help they...