Word: normalizing
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Though it has been wracked by war for more than two decades, South Viet Nam has never fully mobilized its resources to fight the Communists. It has, in fact, more or less tried to fight the war with one hand while the other went about its normal business. Now the government of President Nguyen Van Thieu, having decided to put the country on a full war footing for the first time, is not only out to raise the number of men in uniform to nearly 1,000,000 but to enforce an across-the-board tightening of the economy...
...help Park meet the threat, Special U.S. Envoy Cyrus Vance visited Seoul last February and promised to give Park $100 million in additional U.S. military aid this year on top of the normal $160 million. Drawing on this new account, Park is organizing a 2,500,000-man reserve that, on call, will help to patrol the coast, operate ground-surveillance radar stations and perform other such duties. He is also trying to modernize the country's 600,000-man armed forces, replacing World War II rifles with the new M16, buying U.S. helicopters for better troop mobility...
Stanford, in addition to the 71 Negroes already accepted for next year (against 52 a year ago), this month said it planned to admit and provide special tutoring for ten "marginal minority-group students" who do not meet normal academic requirements. Brown, in a freshman class of 720, expects to have 25 Negroes next year, up from 13 last year. Princeton, which accepted 23 Negroes a year ago, has tapped more than three times as many, 76, for its incoming freshman class...
These grants represent a 31 per cent increase over the same quarter last year. Lower grants in other quarters, however, are expected to limit this year's overall increase to 7.8 per cent. The normal annual increase in Federal grants to the Medical School is 15 per cent...
...NORMAL times conventional ideas have tremendous power to hobble new thought. In times of crisis, however, man's tendency to retreat to the security of tradition can be over-whelming...