Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Curdled Opinion. If there is a note of anguish in the pleas of U.S. officers for more men, that is due to the dangerously exposed situation of U.S. troops as a result of Hanoi's new thrust. "I see no easy end to this war," admitted Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle G. Wheeler last week after conferring with General William C. Westmoreland on troop requirements. "We must expect hard fighting to continue. The enemy retains substantial uncommitted resources...
There's a Tiger loose in the streets. The moan (of the engine) gets drowned out in its turn by a booming exhaust note that someone ought to bottle and seal as pure essence...
...buildup. A few years back, Joe McCarthy was similarly elevated, says Smith, but he at least was a U.S. Senator. Carmichael is "basically a nobody, who, before the press took notice of him, had achieved nothing. He failed to win a following-except from us with our cameras and note pads-in the rural South and in the city ghettos." Thanks to the big play the press gave Carmichael, however, a civil rights leader recently told Smith, "if I say no to Stokely, you fellows won't print it in one sentence on the back page. My people think...
...World's Abuse. On that note, Levin sailed into British complacency. He expressed the kind of all-American sentiments that a U.S. commentator to day would voice only at the risk of being laughed out of the league of sophisticated pundits. "They spent it dying," continued Levin, "so that you can go on watching television, reading books and helping the children with their homework, and so that I can go on listening to Wagner. I don't know about you, but I am grateful and will now say why." As Levin saw it, the confrontation in Viet...
...Phelps..." it begins, and then outlines the task: recover something crucial that has been stolen or prevent the supervillains from achieving some dastardly scheme. At the end of the recording the tape destroys itself in a pouf of smoke. The fact that a phone call, meeting or even a note left on a park bench would be less conspicuous hardly bothers M:I addicts...