Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Looking beyond when we will negotiate to what is negotiable, and talking in specific terms about the kind of points that can and should be resolved, might even help bring about discussions and cause both sides, the South Vietnamese government and the V.C., to see that some gains can be made as against the terrible price being paid by endlessly continuing a conflict that cannot bring total military or political victory to either side. CHARLES H. PERCY United States Senate Tel Aviv
...area's banks. In Chicago, one of the city's 50 aldermen was shot twice in the leg by thugs as he walked the South Side streets, and, just three miles away, another alderman barely escaped from robbers by locking himself inside his garage and screaming for help. New York...
...policy "immoral and illegal." Morse is one of only two Senators-with Alaska Democrat Ernest Gruening-who voted against the Tonkin Gulf Resolution of 1964, one of only three who voted last year against defense appropriations. Challenging anyone else with such a record, Duncan might expect at least covert help from the White House. As it happens, Wayne Morse and Lyndon Johnson are the closest of friends...
...peak of 4.3% in October, then declined; but the jobless rate among teen-agers jumped from 11% to 14% (9.6% for whites, 22.8% for Negroes). Unable through its own machinery to cope with that and other potentially explosive social problems, Government has increasingly turned to business for help. "Government alone cannot meet and master the great social problems of our day," says Presidential Aide Joseph Califano. "It will take public-interest partnerships of a scope we cannot yet perceive...
What business is really most concerned about now is federal policy. In its simultaneous effort to fight a war in Viet Nam, send a man to the moon, erase poverty at home and help struggling countries overseas, the U.S. has strained its resources. The resulting budget and balance-of-payments deficits are promoting inflation. Higher taxes would attack these problems, and so would reducing expenditures at home or abroad. Business wants to see the main emphasis on the latter course because it avoids the risk of expanding government to the detriment of the more productive private sector of the economy...