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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beneath the obviously "big news" lies a wealth of stories that have their own quiet importance-issues that need explanation, stories of the unexpected, the half-forgotten, the intriguing, the piquant. These, too, create their own impact and fascination. This week, for example, TIME readers will find answers to the following questions in our pages -none earth-shaking in itself, but each contributing toward making a bit more sense out of today's world...
President John F. Kennedy, who read James Bond novels and foresaw the need for countering insurgency warfare, particularly in beleaguered Southeast Asia, gave a new lease of life to the Special Forces when he took office. The green beret was reinstated-almost enshrined. Said J.F.K. in 1962: "The green beret is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom." Around that time, 600 members of the Special Forces were serving as advisers in South Viet Nam. In those palmy days, the Green Berets were the darlings...
...most serious charge against the Nixon program is that, while it stresses the need for getting welfare recipients off the dole and onto payrolls, it has not yet acknowledged the necessity for programs to create more jobs. A corollary criticism is that the Administration refuses to accept the role of employer of last resort...
...Jobs Needed. Joseph Califano, former presidential aide to Lyndon Johnson, agreed and noted that the manpower proposal includes a provision for a 10% increase in job-training funds when unemployment hits 4.5% (about 4,000,000 unemployed) for three consecutive months, a level that some experts think could be reached this year. "If unemployment goes that high," argued Califano, "it's not manpower funds they'll need. It's jobs. The guys who are already trained will be out of work. You can make a case that we need a public-employment program right now." The primary...
...eternity" living family members to one another, but perform these and other ordinances for dead family members who did not undergo them while they lived. Any male church member may be a stand-in for a male ancestor; any female church member for a female ancestor -and "ancestors" need not even be directly related. But first the ancestors must be found, and each church member is charged with tracing his own antecedents, collecting their names and putting them in temple records...