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Word: needful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Voted Down. Critics of the bill made three significant attempts to cut back appropriations. There was a stab at denying the Pentagon $533 million to buy more C-5A air transports, a plane that so far has proved uneconomical. Questioning the need for 15 attack aircraft carriers, the critics tried to clip $377.1 million appropriated for construction of a second nuclear carrier. Finally, they tried to cut $80 million from funds allocated for construction of an advanced strategic aircraft. All the efforts were voted down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Until Next Time | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...paramount importance. The very survival of the South as a separate entity may be at stake. Also at stake is the entire American strategy for withdrawal. The hopeful Pentagon scenario calls for gradual replacement of U.S. forces by South Vietnamese, until only U.S. air, artillery and logistic support need remain. If the South Vietnamese should prove incapable of fulfilling this assigned role, the U.S. would then have to decide whether to stop the withdrawals or to abandon Saigon's army and regime to almost certain defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: CAN VIETNAMIZATION WORK? | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...ring-tailed lemur in tow-Osborn was among the earliest campaigners against wanton killing of animals, pollution and the many ways that man has of hurting his environment, and in two highly popular books, Our Plundered Planet (1948) and The Limits of the Earth (1953), he examined the need for swift, strict environmental control. "Are we not," he once asked, "running such a busy race for food, space and employment for even greater numbers that we are forgetting the purpose of it all-a better living for human beings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 26, 1969 | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...laws, the nation's per-capita consumption of liquor actually increased 10%. The blunderbuss approach to marijuana creates widespread disrespect for all law among young people; perhaps worst of all, it makes it difficult for young people to believe adults' warnings about other drugs, and discourages the young who need medical help and advice from seeking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Pop Drugs: The High as a Way of Life | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...Adults must get used to the fact that their world has witnessed the growth of a separate youth culture, or "counterculture." For many of the kids in it, pot is a part of growing up, and the great majority have no intention of freaking out for good. The young need myriad new opportunities to come to terms with life. In the long run, adults can do most to allay

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Pop Drugs: The High as a Way of Life | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

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