Word: nams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intellectual centers are also the most perceptive about the problems facing the U.S. and realize that without some changes now American society will deteriorate. When there is so much unrest on the college level and in the cities over racial problems, urban problems and the war in Viet Nam, perhaps it is time to act to alleviate this unrest rather than stifle its expression so that it will merely erupt later...
...should learn to master the art of dissent within government, a problem that has greatly changed since the days of Thomas More and Machiavelli. James C. Thomson Jr., a former East Asia specialist at the State Department and White House, writes that in the internal Government debate over Viet Nam, "doubters and dissenters were effectively neutralized by a subtle dynamic: the domestication of dissenters." As soon as former Under Secretary of State George Ball began to express doubts, he was "warmly institutionalized." At each stage of the war's escalation, he was invited to express his dissent. Concludes Thomson...
With a certain desperation, he talks to adults about the rhetoric and euphemisms of Viet Nam. "People get shot every day, and bombed and burned and blown up. But no one cares about that. I mean they don't really mind, because anyway, people aren't really shot; fire is directed at their positions. And they're not really people; they're troops. They aren't even dead men; only body counts. And the degree of deadness isn't always too bad; sometimes it's light or moderate instead of heavy...
Preoccupied by the Viet Nam war and proliferating troubles at home, the White House has placed a low priority on establishing America's post-Apollo goals in space. Unless stimulating goals are enunciated, the team that made Apollo possible may begin to disintegrate for lack of a sufficiently compelling challenge. For purely technical reasons as well, time may be running out if the Administration is to maintain America's current lead in space. The last of the 15 first stages for the Saturn 5, NASA's journeyman booster for manned flight, will roll off assembly lines...
...pace of nonfarm hiring, the ratio of prices to manufacturing labor costs, and stock prices as measured by the Standard & Poor's index of 500 stocks. The stock indicator does, however, show a rise for April. Overly excited by European political events and peace prospects in Viet Nam, investors sent the 500 up by 2.28 points last week to close at 104; the narrower Dow-Jones average of 30 industrials climbed 33 points to 957 for its best week-long rally in 13 months...