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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HAVE to remind you, ladies and gentlemen, that we get only one guess at this, that we cannot go back to the drawing board if we make a mistake." The speaker, at a White House briefing last week, was a top-level Administration aide. The subject was "Vietnamization," the effort to place ever-increasing responsibility for fighting the war in the hands of the Vietnamese...
Time Running Out. Secretary-General U Thant warned last May that the nations of the world have "perhaps ten years left" to solve their ancient quarrels and begin working together. In his annual report last week, he sounded even more pessimistic. Rather than reducing the level of nuclear arms, he charged, the major powers have assumed "the incalculable and unmanageable risks of pursuing a race which may end in disaster for all mankind." There has been "very little progress" toward peace and security, Thant said, and "time is running out." If the initial indications are accurate, Thant-and mankind-will...
...students who use marijuana, NIMH Director Yolles estimates that 65% quit after experimenting one to ten times; 25% become social users. Only around 10% become habitual users ?a far cry from the level projected by alarmists, but still a serious number. Those in the last category, many of them subject to the depression and discouragement of slum life, often...
...from their highs of last June. Official Government forecasters figure that the high pressures in the money market are finally beginning to reduce demand and, in turn, production. Economic growth, now only 2% at an annual rate, will stay below normal well into 1970. Prices, however, seem unlikely to level off until next year at the earliest. Recession probability: zero this month, but increasing in the months ahead. Winds are changeable, and the overall climate continues to be highly erratic...
...stay in training for three to five years, a period that many experts consider at least twice as long as necessary. Union officials contend that the system is vital to maintain standards of workmanship. "The apprenticeship program is so rigged that it would take a college-level black to get in," .says Assistant Labor Secretary Arthur Fletcher. "Why should a Negro who can be a college-trained engineer want to be a plumber...