Word: lessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flood the North's chief food-producing region, or making a direct aerial attack on the key North Vietnamese port of Haiphong. Neither U.S. nor world opinion would stand for any of those, and Nixon's new entente with Western Europe would vanish overnight. Still untried, but less drastic, would be a naval blockade of Haiphong or Sihanoukville in Cambodia, the two biggest ports of entry for enemy materiel. The most likely choice, however, is an intensification of the ground war in South Viet Nam, perhaps marked by a large-scale American offensive. None of these courses...
...McNamara finally presented two alternative schemes, one involving an investment of $12.2 billion and an other costing $21.7 billion. The less ex pensive approach might reduce the death toll to 40 million (from an estimated high of 120 million). The second sys tem might lower fatalities to 30 million. Yet these calculations were essentially academic numbers games based on constantly changing realities. They presumed a static Russian defensive capability as it existed in 1967. McNamara himself pointed out the big drawback: "We can be certain that the Soviets will react to offset the advantage we would hope to gain...
...Edsel of ABM's." "So we just pick some numbers that seem rational and we use them to make whatever point serves our purpose." Ted Kennedy quotes the Budget Bureau's Richard Stubbing, who evaluated $40 billion worth of aircraft and missile projects initiated since 1955 and concluded that "less than 40% of the effort produced systems with acceptable electronic performance." The implication, of course, is that if technology cannot perfect relatively simple devices, it seems highly improbable that the infinitely complex ABM will work any better...
...nature of University decision making. They claim that they intend to give the students a voice in the decisions that affect their life and work in the University. But I seriously question how the members of these organizations can claim to represent the students in their own committees, much less before the Faculty or the administration. . . . The sight of a prominent HUC member complaining that "there is no way to become a big man on campus" certainly makes one wonder how much his desires for student representation on the Faculty is motivated by the desire for a larger audience. Hearing...
...Harvard Office of Tests has conducted an unpublished study comparing the scholastic achievement of student demonstrators and their less radical college classmates...