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This, of course, would be a tiny drop in the bucket. But the announcement served a shrewd purpose. A major aim of President Johnson's cost-cutting drive was to impress the cost-conscious Congress. But whereas a Congressman may be all for money-saving in the abstract, it is quite a different matter when the proposal is to save money from his own state or district. Thus, upon hearing of McNamara's plans, there were the predictable yelps from almost all the affected Congressmen. They were heard by the folks at home, but would hardly sway Secretary...
...crucial date is 1905, and the crucial event the destruction of the Russian fleet by the Japanese. Since then, Parkinson feels, the "established prestige of the West" has been shattered. (The destruction of the Japanese fleet by the U.S. Navy in World War II does not seem to impress him.) Parkinson does not believe that Eastern parity with the West "is even imminent," but believes that it will eventually come and that it will be up to Russia to fight the West's last rearguard action, as Byzantium once shored up the exhausted Roman Empire...
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Strong & Balanced. Such personalism fails to impress some campus observers. "The big picture is unchanged," says Stanford Psychologist Nevitt Sanford. "Students are by and large not interested in the larger questions of the day in this country." Chatham's President Eddy frets that "youth is beginning to retreat behind excellence" to what he calls "the permanent alibi of scholarship." Critics also sourly complain that today's collegians are "totally defeatist" and "so damn sober." "There's a material sophistication that is not matched by a spiritual one," says one California professor, adding, "They all seem to have...
...practicable for the U.S.'s small-statured Asian allies, who find standard U.S. rifles too big to handle. Most of the 104,000 M-16s that Colt will make under the new contract will be shipped to U.S. airborne divisions and Special Forces. If the rifle continues to impress U.S. defense planners-it is already highly popular with the troops-it could become the standard U.S. assault rifle of the next decade, run up millions of dollars in orders...