Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After two months, Nixon is berated by the right, the left and the Democrats for not solving instantly the war, crime, poverty, inflation and all the rest of the mess his predecessors left unanswered after eight long years. Ridiculous...
...under such furious homefront attack. No segment is immune: the uniformed professionals, their civilian colleagues and superiors at the Pentagon, their supporters in Congress, their suppliers among big business and big labor?all feel the criticism and distrust from several directions at once. Students, intellectuals, pacifists and the New Left have long been opponents. Now they are being joined by more influential voices from the center and even the right. Congress, until recently amenable to almost any proposal from the military, suddenly bristles with skepticism. The Senate may not approve the antiballistic missile program. Unfriendly investigations have been pointing...
...military spending. Entire communities depend almost totally on a military installation, defense plants, or both. Junction City, Kans. (pop. 20,500), lives off Fort Riley. The post pumps $143 million into the state's economy, most of it in the Junction City area. When an Army division left in 1965, business plummeted...
...secret could not be kept for long, however, and scarcely had the train left Washington's Union Station when towns along the way began making plans for tribute. Nothing that took place during the five days of mourning was so eloquent in expressing the country's feeling of nostalgia and affection as the simple, spontaneous turnouts along the tracks. In Charleston, W. Va., nearly 600 people, including children in pajamas and blankets, watched the train go by. In Washington, Ind., a small (pop. 11,000) farming town in the southwestern part of the state, 10,000 people gathered...
...sources but contribute nothing to its support. A magnet for Northbound Negroes ever since World War II, the city is overburdened with unskilled workers whose families have strained the welfare system and glutted the schools. When large plants like Swift, Armour and Alcoa pulled out for better locations, they left behind a seething, sickened slum...