Word: national
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When, oh when, will the people of this nation realize that the only way our problems can be solved is through men like John V. Lindsay? Is the white middle class going to buy the preachings of a few shrewd capitalists like Yorty, Charles Stenvig and Procaccino? If so, will the blacks, frustrated for the 15 millionth time, rise up in final, bloody revolt? I hope...
...raised fists and hurled stones at the old order." So far, 1969 has seen fewer violent confrontations. Yet the would-be revolutionaries remain, and the year's greatest issue by far has been question and protest about the quality and direction of life in the richest, most advanced nation on earth. TIME'S job has been not only to report on the rush of events, but to analyze their deeper meanings and perhaps suggest what can be done to ameliorate the conditions that divide Americans...
...task has engaged virtually every section of the magazine. TIME'S Jan. 24 issue contained a 20-page special section, "To Heal a Nation," describing the priorities open to President Nixon on his Inauguration. The Viet Nam war-the bloody fighting, the futile peace talks in Paris, the mounting crescendo of protest at home-have occupied the NATION and WORLD sections. Other areas of protest led to NATION cover stories on the debate over the ABM and, indeed, the entire U.S. military-industrial complex, and told of the new militancy among Mexican-Americans led by Cesar Chavez...
...England the pattern was similar to-if more intense than-the rest of the nation. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) told a World Affairs Council meeting in Boston that the United States should "announce a firm schedule for withdrawing all its troops from Vietnam as a step towards a political settlement...
...gate of the White House. The protesters were quickly routed as U.S. park police arrested five. A fist-swinging melee developed as anti-Moratorium picketers attacked the protest-in Congress the halls were relatively quiet as many of the members spent the day speaking to Moratorium crowds across the nation. Anti-war Representatives were blocked in their efforts to keep the House in session all Tuesday night...