Word: parallels
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...direction as well, with some military men urging that the bombing be resumed throughout the North. But many top Navy and Air Force officials, in particular, felt that the U.S. was destroying more enemy supplies by concentrating its bombing on supply routes from the Demilitarized Zone at the 17th parallel to the 19th parallel rather than by trying to bombard the entire North. Indeed, the U.S. flew nearly 700 more missions in April over the 21% of North Viet Nam's territory that is not yet proscribed than it did in March, when most of the country was fair game...
Viet Nam that would give them everything above the 16th parallel. They emerged without Cambodia and Laos (though a number of Viet Minh divisions are still trying to correct that omission) and with a partition line at the 17th parallel, leaving the old imperial capital of Hue in the South. As for the U.S., it never signed the main agreement, largely because it was convinced that the Viet Nam-wide elections scheduled for 1956 would not be effectively supervised and would guarantee a Communist takeover of the South...
Harriman's public history is, with only a few gaps, parallel to and part of the sweep of U.S. foreign policy since the eve of World War II. Son of Railroad Baron E. H. Harriman (Union Pacific), whom Teddy Roosevelt castigated as one of the "malefactors of great wealth," William Averell Harriman has been a Secretary of Commerce (under Harry Truman), Governor of New York (Nelson Rockefeller unseated him in 1958), ambassador to Moscow during the war and to the Court of St. James's afterward. Of the major World War II conferences, he missed only Quebec...
Above all, man should strive to parallel natural decay by recycling-reusing as much waste as possible. Resalvaging already keeps 80% of all mined copper in circulation...
Obviously this parallel is a bit specious since reading and lectures have different functions. But I do think lectures can legitimately be introductory, and that Mr. Imam's proposal lifts them to an independent eminence they rarely have. The final act in most courses finds the student putting the primary materials together in his own way, and it may be enough for lectures to suggest how this might be done. Lawrence J. Richardson...