Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bombers roamed above North Viet Nam's 19th parallel, and even south of that line there was a slight decrease in the number of raids. In its effort to intensify the strains be tween the U.S. and South Viet Nam, Hanoi had unexpected help. In a carelessly phrased comment during an appearance in Maine, Hubert Humphrey said that the conferees had "now" agreed to admit representatives of the Viet Cong and the Saigon regime to the negotiations. At some point, that is going to happen, if the talks are to continue; but it has not happened yet, and Humphrey...
...lieutenant commander aboard the Flying Fortress Swoose when it crash-landed in Australia in 1942. This plethora of memorabilia and trivia, together with hundreds of official gifts from visiting dignitaries, will be housed in a special Johnson library at the University of Texas in Austin. L.B.J. also aims to help set up an institute of public affairs at the school, aided by foundation grants, emphasizing a redefinition of the nature of the U.S. presidency...
...whether it lies within its power to make Cambridge a more attractive setting for life as well as for work. . . . By providing a milieu encouraging to the development of a variety of subcommittees it could widen the options for involvement open to the Faculty. And it could help to generate a sense of common intellectual interest that might transcend the differences among its members...
...most delicate problem in suggesting ways to strengthen the community was what to say about Cambridge. The University's relations with the City have been improving in recent years, and there have been signs of a thaw in the Cambridge School Committee's traditional coldness to offers of help from the Ed School. But the CCA committeemen who have consistently voted for Harvard help are the minority on the Committee now and any slap at the quality of Cambridge schools would be disastrously impolitic. At the same time, the exodus to Belmont and Lexing ton in the last 15 years...
...that no one recognizes that this campaign is a last chance, that soon poor people will no longer want to get in. They will be fed up with that. It is sad that they are not getting help and it is sad that Congress misunderstands them and the city of Washington hates and fears them...