Word: help
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...event, it was impossible for Fifth Air Force jets stationed on Okinawa to reach U.S.S. Pueblo without refueling in South Korea, an operation that would have taken too long for them to reach the stricken ship in time to help. No fighter planes were in readiness in South Korea to aid U.S.S. Pueblo, a precaution exercised in an earlier spy-ship mission off North Korea...
...class Americans? To some extent, many seem reassured by the mere fact that the Nixon Administration is in power. Nixon is their man in style, tone and convictions. Psychologically, at least, he has made some gestures in their direction. He has said and done less than his predecessor about helping blacks - which from the national viewpoint will probably prove to be a dangerous tactic in the long run. He has taken tough positions on law enforcement and student unrest - without, how ever, going as far as the forgotten American wants. Nixon is trying to end the Vietnamese war - an effort...
...that the welfare system is a mess, though few agree on what should be done. The Ad ministration is now preparing reforms of the welfare sys tem, and may eventually work toward abolishing it - re placing it with an evenhanded guaranteed annual wage or family allowance that would clearly help the lower middle class as well as the poor. White workers, however, would have to be persuaded that such an allowance did not represent simply another something-for-nothing scheme...
...many ways just as inferior as those in black ghettos; these schools should be upgraded while being integrated. Instead of punishing communities that fail to integrate, for example, the Federal Government might well reward those that do so by increasing their subsidies. Equally important, the cities must soon combine help for black ghettos with more aid for blue-collar neighborhoods-better garbage collections, recreational facilities and police protection...
...small (5 ft. 6 in.), tough-talking, chainsmoking man, he reminded some of George Raft, others of a Guys and Dolls bookie. To keep busy in his off hours he took up hobbies (painting, carpentry), and from time to time he expressed the hope that they would help him give up the smoking habit. But he remained a three-pack-a-day man, and last week Loesser died in a Manhattan hospital of lung cancer...