Word: latterly
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...latter part of the CRIMSON article accurately gives our reasons for opposing the employment in Vietnam of riot gas and anti-crop chemicals, as actions likely to erode the restraints on the use of chemical and biological weapons generally...
Psychedelic Flip-Out. The ultimate weapon of the alienated young remains the same as that employed by Goethe's Werther: oblivion, either physical (through suicide) or psychological (through drugs). Usually it is the latter, though suicide rates are rising through much of the world in the 18-to-25 age group. In Iran, for example, fully 95% of the suicides are in the Now Generation; in the U.S. nearly one in ten. More often, the flip-out is psychedelic. Acid-heads and pot smokers feel that they can ease the weight of the Sisyphean stone by drug...
Lippmann feels not so much that he is deserting Washington, but that Washington has deserted him. When he arrived in the latter days of the New Deal as the World War II clouds were gathering, he found the capital was the only place for a columnist to be; today he thinks that as a source of world news the city is drying up. "I'm not leaving because of Lyndon Johnson," he says. "Of course I don't like the White House. I think its influence is bad. But that might be a reason for staying. I stayed...
There are many different kinds of presidential press secretary. Some deal only with the press; others become close advisers to the chief executive. Billy Don Moyers, 32, is certainly among the latter. To a degree unmatched by any press secretary before him, Moyers became perhaps the top policy adviser to the President of the U.S. He not only worked directly on many of the legislative matters of the Great Society, but took on the most disparate tasks-from foreign-policy trips to speechwriting to image-building campaigns-at which Lyndon Johnson needed help. Because of a trusting, father-son relationship...
...This poll was conducted at a peak time, when the library was filled to near capacity," Lowenstein said. "We observed that over half the students were boys." Yet the 90 girls polled were fairly evenly divided between "partial exclusion" and "no restrictions," the latter having a slight edge of 8-10 votes...