Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cold war" now portends to become the "wet war." Your splendid article on the spectacular growth of Russian seapower [Feb. 23] should help in bringing our own national goals into proper perspective and bring us back down to earth from the heady atmosphere of the race in outer space. Unless there is a rebirth of national leadership in the maritime field, stemming from public awareness and concern, we may find ourselves aroused from our present apathy by what the noted naval historian, Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan called: "the rude awakening of those who have abandoned their share of the common...
...want to go to Viet Nam now? Hell no! We're not fighting a war there: we are trying to please the rest of the world, trying to show them what good sports we are by fighting on the enemy's terms. I want to help stop Communism. If President Johnson starts acting like he wants to win this war I promise I'll quit college and enlist, just like my father did in 1941. But I'll be damned if I'll support Johnson with everything I have, including my life...
...aftermath of World War I, when the U.S. rejected the League of Nations, many concerned citizens felt a need for an organization that might help to balance the country's growing isolationism. Thus 50 years ago, a group of editors and scholars founded the Foreign Policy Association. In publications and meetings they provided a platform for foreign-affairs and communications specialists who later helped organize World Affairs Councils in cities throughout the nation...
...means wholly responsible, he believes that an unsatisfactory outcome of the conflict there could well lead to World War III. In any case, far more than Viet Nam will be at stake during Clark Clifford's tenure as Secretary of Defense. If he can help to reduce the disarray in NATO and other U.S. alliances, and to restore the amity that once existed between Capitol Hill and the White House, he will have done much to reweave the badly rent fabric of national unity...
...McCarthy was there to offer them encouragement, congratulations, and gratitude. He signed autographs, shook hands, smiled a lot, and made it all seem worthwhile. He says his army of students is something "America has never seen before" and that his campaign could never have progressed so quickly without their help...