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...level military subordinates. Before a House subcommittee last May, Army Chief of Staff Edward Meyer testified that he was seriously short of trained troops that could be quickly moved to Europe in case of war. Because of the lack of manpower, Meyer declared, the U.S. has a "hollow Army." In September, Air Force Chief of Staff Lew Allen Jr. told the Air Force Association that the U.S. has "serious deficiencies in its armed forces vis-àvis those of an increasingly powerful Soviet adversary...
...inhabited by much poorer people. Falling rent forced landlords to neglect and then abandon buildings. Vandals ripped anything of value from the tenements or just torched them. Arson became a carefully planned and profitable activity as landlords burned their buildings to collect fire insurance, making the area charred and hollow...
What buildings do remain stand agape and hollow. There is no broken glass in the windows, because there is no glass in the windows at all. The garbage in the doorways is not a pile but a growth. On a street north of Charlotte a green Chevy lies on its back like a cleaned fish. Such things are seen not only in the South Bronx but also in Harlem and the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, formerly a Jewish ghetto, now black. These areas too are worse off than they were four years ago. From a tenement roof in Long...
...Carter's plummeting popularity was making many Democrats consider voting for an open convention. Kansas Governor John Carlin told Vice President Walter Mondale that Carter appeared "inflexible" and "heavyhanded" and that while he could well win the rules fight, the result would be a divisive convention and a "hollow victory." A majority of Carter's 23 delegates in Kansas were expected to follow the Governor's call for an open convention, although still supporting the President for renomination. In Illinois, which has Carter's largest delegation (his edge is 163 to 16 over Kennedy), Waukegan Mayor...
Monthly fluctuations in the unemployment rate are one of the most closely watched and politically potent trends in the economy. Half a century after the Depression knocked one worker in four out of a job, the legacy of hollow-faced men standing in breadlines remains a haunting national memory...