Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Johnson took a giant step with the appointment of HEW Secretary Gardner [Jan. 20]. It should be a life time appointment: without him the Great Society would be a fiasco; with him, there is hope. God help us if this post ever again becomes a political sop. ROBERT W. CARSON, M.D. Salt Lake City Sir: Secretary Gardner's comments about top executives who cannot tolerate first- class men around them illustrate what is subconscious knowledge among supervisors and employees in business and Government. The symptoms of "injelititis or palsied paralysis" are best described by C. Northcote Parkinson...
...comrades sit around a table and discuss any improper thoughts they have caught themselves thinking. This constant self-criticism is carried into the army's upper echelons. A recruit, for example, may be surprised when a colonel walks into the barracks in a private's uniform and begins to help clean the latrine. The colonel is merely conforming to the "Officers to the Ranks" movement. When this program began in 1959, officers were expected 'to spend a month of every year living like privates. The officers and enlisted men were encouraged to recapture the spirit of the revolutionary days, when...
...that the PLA was asked to spend too much time bringing in harvests and building dams. The officers wanted to build a crack modern army and felt too little time was left for military training. China, they thought, should swallow its pride and a little ideology and accept Russian help in building modern weapons stockpiles, including atomic bombs...
...that their interests lie with the anti-Mao, expert faction. But they face a dilemma. They don't want to risk another defeat, especially in this case, when no one knows (or likes to think about) the fate of the losers. Yet, they are not eager to give substantial help to the reds...
There is doubt that a war which may devastate much of the countryside can lead to the stable and prosperous Vietnam we once hoped our presence would help create...