Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bombing curtailment has been to pour in men and supplies "at an unpreccdented rate." Nonetheless, two clays later during a press conference at the L.B.J. Ranch with Australia's Prime Minister John Gorton on hand, the President reiterated that "if Hanoi will take responsive action" to reduce the level of violence, "we are ready to go far and fast with them, and with others, to reduce the violence and to build a stable peace in Southeast Asia...
Desperation & Deterioration. In fact, the level of violence on both sides has risen steadily since the talks began. A week before the negotiators met in Paris, the U.S. command in Saigon issued a directive urging field officers to go "all out" to hit the enemy. The Communists, similarly, stepped up their attacks and increased the rate of infiltration; U.S. reconnaissance pilots (see THE WORLD) report sighting 100-truck convoys in areas of Laos and North Viet Nam's southern panhandle where ten trucks once constituted a big catch...
Though the search-by as many as 55 ships and 35 aircraft-continued at a diminished level, it seemed most likely that Scorpion had gone to the bottom in the depths beyond the reach of sonar, divers or the McCann chamber. Unlike the loss of Thresher with 129 men aboard, Scorpion's demise appeared to have nothing to do with inadequate shipyard maintenance: she ostensibly got a "Four 0"-i.e., excellent -rating in an overhaul only last summer, and had performed superbly in the Mediterranean. Had she not remained incommunicado in transit but been required to signal her position...
...only one of the penalties that have been risked for the lbis. In 1953, for example, during the tense negotiations between Americans and Korean Communists over the return of American war prisoners, the lbis flew into the national Cold War and the Lampoon rescued it only after high-level embarrassment. When the bird disappeared the Crimson was immediately suspect. The same day, April 26, Managing Editor George S. Abrams '54 and President Michael Maccoby '54 diappeared, and the Crimson was informed by anonymous phone call that they would not be returned until the lbis flew back to Freedom Square...
...poor are "getting away" with anything. The portion of the American Middle Class that sees the poor as sloppy, drunken, and lustful, is determined that the poor should pay for their libertine existence with poverty. It sees any attempt to bring the poor up to or near its income level as a threat to its own position. The view is shortsighted, of course. Being poor in America really isn't much fun. But as long as a large group of voters is jealous of its position, Congress must be careful not to give the poor too much...