Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your review of Richard Hofstadter's book [Oct. 25] gives a misleading impression of one of The Progressive Historians. I knew well and remember as a very great teacher Vernon Louis Parrington. From the review, one would judge that he never left the Middle West. In point of fact, he was an undergraduate at Harvard, and the last 20 or more years of his mere 58 were spent as a professor at the University of Washington...
...MISSILES. Discussing the U.S. arsenal of land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, Nixon declared that Dwight Eisenhower left office in 1961 bequeathing to the U.S. a 50% advantage over the Soviet Union. Today, Nixon maintained, U.S. superiority in this "crucial weapon" is only marginal-and diminishing daily...
Nixon also left one important and familiar question begging: When the stockpiles of both powers already ensure a massive overkill, why should the U.S. add to its thermonuclear hoard in or der to convince any potential enemy that all-out warfare would signify immediate devastation? Nixon's view is that keeping ahead of the Soviets in a nuclear race would ensure peace by demonstrating that the U.S. had not turned soft...
...million votes," he said, adding that he needed the hecklers; silence caused him to flub his lines more than once. But late in the campaign he ran into a reverse form of hectoring. Lank-haired students wearing Wallace buttons cheered him wildly and chanted, "Kill for peace!" Such demonstrations left him dumfounded...
...limousine behind the barred iron grille of the castle, the crowd cried, "Russians, go home!" "We have the truth, they have the tanks!" For a moment, the gates threatened to give way, but a squad of Czech police and militia managed to push the crowd back. The Soviet ambassador left by the back door...