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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choice that Muriel Humphrey, who prefers life in Waverly to that in Washington, would particularly appreciate. And he could be important in the fortunes of Teddy Kennedy. "Some day you will lead the nation," Humphrey told the young Senator several months ago, "and I'm going to help you get the chance...
...line with the program's cooperative philosophy, Government agencies help find the jobless, then subsidize industry for some of the special costs in hiring, training and keeping them on the job. Industry's contribution is to put them in useful, productive jobs, and if possible to keep them there. There are now 61,000 at work for 12,000 firms at a total cost of $61 million to the Federal Government and some $120 million to the participating firms...
...years ago, when Nasserite terrorists were trying to overthrow the government of Lebanon, its President, Camille Chamoun, could reassure a doubting Cabinet minister: "If things get too tough, I can call for the Sixth Fleet, just like this . . ." And the President snapped his fingers. Chamoun did call for help; the U.S. Sixth Fleet landed its Marines. Lebanon proceeded to settle its affairs without further outside interference. Russia's Nikita Khrushchev, who had been loudly rattling his rockets and threatening war if the U.S. intervened in Lebanon, quickly backed down in the face of the U.S. show of strength...
...soon come around and abandon his stubborn refusal to participate in the expanded peace talks in Paris. But while the conflict lasted, perhaps the most ironic element in it was the way in which it demonstrated Saigon's new-found independence. The U.S. has all along labored to help create a stable constitutional government that could eventually stand on its own, a government immune to Communist charges that it is a mere puppet of the Americans. President Thieu's defiant holdout provided an unexpected confirmation that the U.S. has indeed been at least partially successful in those objectives...
...girls, with the male enrollment staying at its present total of 4,000. Of the first 500 women, 250 will be transfer students, the other 250 will be freshmen who will take over one of the twelve undergraduate residential colleges. The results of the first year, Brewster explained, will help Yale to make basic decisions about its new coeducational status-in particular, whether the girls should have their own residential college or share buildings with Yale...