Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MAJOR JOSEPH BRADLEY, 35, of Nashville, Tenn., married, father of two daughters and a son, an Army veteran of 17 years, heads a five-man American team at the district capital of Tuyphuoc in northern Binh Dinh province. The town, a single street of shabby shops, thatch-roofed houses and a Catholic church, is an island among Communist-controlled sugar cane and rice fields. All roads leading out are controlled by the Viet Cong. A pudgy man who peers mildly from behind grey-rimmed glasses, Bradley is supposed to advise the district chief on military and civilian matters. Says...
...Americans killed in the Viet Nam war, only two have been civilians. One was Barbara Robbins, a secretary who died in the terrorist bombing of the U.S. embassy in Saigon last month. The other was Joseph W. Grainger, 39, an employee of the Agency for International Development...
Despite his reservations, Barth suggested that Americans have recently "accepted a collective responsibility to be our brothers' keepers to a degree never before manifested." University of Illinois Sociologist Joseph Gusfield was equally optimistic. Mass society may create indifference, he said, but with it come mass communications that spur moral responses. Gusfield's prize example: the recent descent on Selma of Americans from every corner of the country. Gusfield called that phenomenon "one of the greatest outpourings of mass Samaritanism in American history...
Hard-headed Joseph Alsop has had his say on last week's teach-in. In a syndicated column datelined "Cambridge," which appeared yesterday in the Boston Globe under the headline "Harvard Teach-in Misguided," he labeled the participants "breast-beaters who had never been there [Viet Nam]" and chided them as Ivory Tower observers who "never bothered to inform themselves about grim little Ho Chi Minh's brilliant success as a cold-headed murder of his early resistance comrades." He concluded that "perhaps American progression [sic] needs to be returned to its former preoccupation with hard facts...
...Joseph Lampl, Director of the Academy of Applied Medical Sciences, will deliver a lecture on "Hypnosis: Applications and Implications for Behavior Change" at 4 p.m. today in William James 1. The talk is sponsored by the Center for Research in Personality...