Word: never
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...German consul for cultural relations in San Francisco in 1968, I asked Ansel Adams [Sept. 3] if he would like to make an artistic tour of West Germany as a guest of the federal government. His answer was remarkable and convincing: "I have never left the U.S. except for a glimpse over the Mexican and Canadian fences. I have done that only because the nature, the landscape is the same on both sides of the frontier. I am afraid to visit Europe, to see all your ancient towns, all your fairy-tale castles because, as I understand, all the landscape...
...many people have never known joy? They live in our neighborhoods, they have never met a brother or sister who touched their lives with the love of Jesus...
Hence, the rabid anti communism of the late 40s and 50s never appears in this book; presumably the widely-held belief that the world was rife with commies had no impact on U.S. military strategy. Presumably the Korean war raised no questions about the use of nuclear weapons; Mandelbaum asserts only that Eisenhower's veiled references to The Bomb helped end the war. Presumably, in writing the history of American strategic thought in the last three decades, the Vietnam war is worth no more than a paragraph of simplistic analysis; for Mandelbaum the war was "first a laboratory...then...
...what Ginn called "a tremendous mess and a real foul-up on the parts of ETS," many students nationwide never received the tickets listing the location of their test site guaranteeing them admission to the test...
Ginn said many of admissions tickets were never even mailed and speculated that computer errors or the use of a new registration form may have caused the delay