Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Guard at a time when both may be needed to cope with disorders in the cities; higher taxes; perhaps even wage and price controls. The effects on Johnson's political future would be no less profound, for support of the war has reached an alltime low within the nation. According to a Gallup poll released this week, 49% of Americans-the highest total ever-believe that the U.S. made a mistake in sending troops to fight in Viet Nam, while only 41% approved...
...sure what resulted from drawing in over 6,000 R.D. cadre and some of the regional and popular forces to province and district towns." But the estimates are that Communist real estate and population gains will be small in III Corps. Civilian casualties were also low: 188 dead, some 1,000 wounded or missing. But 10,000 houses were destroyed, and the area has 50,000 new refugees...
...Saigon Capital Zone South Viet Nam's capital now wears the air of "nervous normalcy" to which more isolated province capitals have grown accustomed. Most businesses have reopened, but stocks are low. The western one-third of the Chinese quarter of Cholon is still insecure at night, the work of several hundred Viet Cong who are still holed up around the race track. Saigon lost, it is now estimated, 6,300 civilians during the fighting; another 11,000 were wounded...
...Asia's backwardness-such as lack of capital, of resources, of education-certainly exist, reports Myrdal. But far more damaging to progress are what he sees as basic Asian character traits and attitudes. In one long sentence that amounts to a Doomsday Book, he lists them as: "Low levels of work discipline, punctuality and orderliness; superstitious beliefs and irrational outlook; lack of alertness, adaptability, ambition and general readiness for change and experiment; contempt for manual work; submissiveness to authority and exploitation; low aptitude for cooperation." The last, Myrdal notes ironically, is a legacy from Gandhi and other Asians...
...record $155 million and profits rebounded to $2,890,000. Naturally, nobody is more delighted than Norton Simon, a notably tough taskmaster. "Dave has done sensationally considering the time he's been aboard," says Simon. "Canada Dry is a substantially rejuvenated company." Wall Street agrees. From its 1966 low of $19 a share, the company's common stock climbed to $34 early this year on the New York Stock Exchange. The announcement of Sport-Cola sent...