Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle envisions the nation's return to the head of the pack. If forced to devalue. France threatens a devaluation of such magnitude as to pull down other currencies with the franc. The U.S. dogmatically upholds the value of the dollar. The world has suffered three major monetary crises in the past year; yet nations still attempt patchwork measures that only temporarily ease their ills and then only at the expense of others...
...different from those that have preceded it-with politicians, warriors, assassins, bigots, extremists, racists of all colors, policemen and the like making the day-in-day-out headlines-the presence of Dr. Barnard, squeezed in between these people and their ugly deeds, on the front pages of all the major newspapers of the world was most welcome...
...sensitive nature of the post, and because Nixon labeled Kissinger his instrument for a "complete reorganization and restructuring of the entire White House security planning machinery." If Kissinger and his new boss have their way, that will mean the resurrection of the National Security Council as a major organ of government...
Whatever the system employed, there can be no argument that a world power must constantly seek to anticipate major problems and to be prepared with fresh ideas to cope with them. Kissinger said that his major assignment would be to "make certain that the planning mechanism of the Government functions more effectively and presents to the President all of the relevant contingencies and choices." This implies liberating Kissinger from much of the hour-to-hour drudgery-the monitoring of cables from abroad and memoran dums from agencies in Washington-that kept Bundy and Rostow tied to the "situation room" beneath...
...truth was probably more the latter than the former. In fact, the conference drew almost exclusively on the much-maligned "liberal establishment." In a closing attack Sam Brown, a former Harvard Divinity student, seized on this as a major failing of the conference. Before he spoke a few lonely pickets outside the Princeton Theological Seminary (where the closing session was held) made the same point. "These tired old conferees are being used to give the illusion that 'intellectuals' are participating in America's absurdity," their sign read and then listed I.F. Stone, Dwight MacDonald, Norman Mailer, Noam Chomsky, Mary McCarthy...