Word: laide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another's efforts." One of the things that prompted Kennedy's belated decision to take on Johnson was the evidence that his "squealers and jumpers" were growing up and drifting away from him. Since 1964, at least 12.6 million Americans have reached voting age, and Bobby once laid claim to a large percentage of them. "Kennedy thinks that American youth belongs to him as the bequest of his brother," noted ardently pro-McCarthy Columnist Mary McGrory. "Seeing the romance flower between them and Mc Carthy, he moved with the ruthlessness of a Victorian father whose daughter has fallen...
Later, in a Senate office, states and regions were being divided, speaking schedules laid out, and many a 1960 staffer put to work. Pierre Salinger, looking little different from that campaign save for a more expansive manner and more expensive clothes, shuffled about roaring "Just like old times...
...burden is, thus, about to be shifted onto Negroes. The ghetto will be directly hit by the curtailing of federal programs, but the unemployment resulting from a slowdown of the economy may have an even greater impact. Negroes have always been the first to be laid off as firms react to a decelerating economy, and it is probable that the number laid off will peak sometime during the summer. If the President and Congress were trying to build riot potential, their timing could scarcely have been better...
Neither civilian rulers such as Indira Gandhi nor the generals who have taken over from the postcolonial politicians in many South Asian nations have had much success in changing these attitudes. The result is that the best-laid, often Western-tutored, economic plans consistently go awry. Whether military or civilian, nominally capitalist or self-styled socialist, "the various political systems in the region are strikingly similar in their inability or unwillingness to institute fundamental reforms and enforce social discipline. They are all in this sense 'soft states.' " And, adds Myrdal: "There is little hope in South Asia...
Other opinions varied widely. Most sensible and restrained was a report by the Board on Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Investigational transplants are now "appropriate" in man, said the board, but surgical teams with insufficient experience and facilities should not be permitted to attempt them. It thereupon laid down a set of guidelines. But even in hindsight, they were guidelines that had already been observed by Barnard and the two U.S. teams that have transplanted hearts...