Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME should take with the proverbial grain of salt the statements of critics as well as protagonists on Viet Nam. For example, you cite Lieut. Colonel Corson as having me proudly announce "the distribution of 150,000 more tons of fertilizer in five northern provinces in 1967, failing to mention that the region's rice production fell by 150,000 tons during the same period...
Which reminds me that you neglected in your letter to mention your own current marital status. If you haven't a wife at the moment, I advise you to acquire one without delay. Wives can be extremely important at tax time not, of course, for the piddling $600 exemptions they bring with them, but for their in-come-splitting potential. Philip M. Stern, a would-be tax reformer who is, I am afraid, trying to do away with this convenient practice, says that in 1964 the wife of a man with $1,000,000 in taxable income was worth...
...sense of direction, purpose, and leadership skills." (The New York Times is helpful here and notes that an overwhelming majority of those who have been under fire say that they have benefitted from the experience and are more confident because of it. Note, that there is no mention that the poll was administered only to those who survived...
...style liberalism in the face of New Left propaganda, decide to trust the mythological student you create on a flimsy basis, namely his "awareness" and "commitment." You fail to give credit to conservative activist students, who outnumber S.D.S. members by more than 5 to 1. Further, you fail to mention that there are students who intellectually envision the solutions to "bureaucracy" and "dehumanization" in addition to the few whose inarticulate ravings and uncritical grasp of history dominate your pages. There are many among us who do not erupt with empty slogans and undirected fury before a world not understood...
...Composer Leroy Anderson (The Syncopated Clock) who was, to be sure, a U.S. military intelligence captain in World War II and Korea. So are Pulitzer Prizewinning Cartoonist Bruce Shanks of the Buffalo Evening News and Phil Santora of the New York Daily News, not to mention Newsday Publisher Bill Moyers, L.B.J.'s former press secretary. On the list too are Arthur Schlesinger and HEW ex-Secretary John Gardner, Viet Nam Negotiator Cyrus Vance and Presidential Aide Walt Whitman Rostow...