Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What Negotiations in Viet Nam Might Mean" [Dec. 22], is one of the most realistic and constructive analyses of the present situation in Viet Nam that I have read...
...feel it communicated through the attitudes of the Vietnamese people and in the eyes of the children. Those who haven't been here can't know these feelings. But ask any of us over here, especially those of us in the hospitals to whom this war must mean the most, and the answer will invariably be the same: "We are right." The Communists have chosen this as a battlefield, and we will defeat them at their own game, in their yard. Peace is beautiful, but we've had to fight for it before...
Charles de Gaulle imperiously describes it as "a lien weighing heavily on our national patrimony." Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson calls it "industrial helotry." West Germany's Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss uses the word Ausverkauf-meaning sellout. The U.S. Government has frowned on it as a plague on the balance of payments. No matter what it is called, the fact remains that one of the most significant developments of the post-World War II world is the great leap by U.S. corporations into overseas markets-whether by direct investment in plant and equipment or by acquisition...
...other scientists, says that one flaming "sickle" over the Ukraine even executed evasive maneuvers when tracked by a plane. Zigel tantalized Moscow TV viewers two weeks ago by raising the possibility that, while such observations could be due to optical illusions or mischievous atmospherics, they might also mean visitors from another world...
...practice. But, wrote Justice Hugo Black, "We hold that the freedom of speech, assembly and petition guaranteed by the First and 14th Amendments gives petitioner the right to hire attorneys to assist its members in the assertion of their legal rights." The 8-to-l decision seems to mean that almost any form of group legal services will now be acceptable, as long as the group refrains from telling the lawyer what...