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...draft card, defies the courts and generally makes a nuisance of himself. But even the average draftee who does not oppose the war in Viet Nam does not completely understand it, and is moved by no strong motivation to join it. "If students, for example, could feel the peril, more of them would be willing to go," says Dr. Edmond Hallberg, dean of students at California State College at Los Angeles. "Today they are more interested in the future of man, in the abstract, than in the national interest...
Faith in the Pope. Cavalier talk it was, too, for the parlor of an absent Foreign Minister. As Il Borghese played it, La Pira had gaily dismissed Communism as "a peril that no longer exists." President Johnson, he told the editor with a mystic's assurance, "will have to cede and make peace [in Viet Nam] because American financiers want it." Dean Rusk? "He doesn't know anything." Italian Premier Aldo Moro? "There's something about him I don't like." Pope Paul? "I have faith in him," allowed the Saint, "even if he sometimes stops...
...With consumers both affluent and confident, even these rises are likely to be offset by another phenomenon of the consumption economy: greater credit spending. Installment credit has risen to $66.8 billion, but consumers are paying their bills promptly, thereby making credit a push for the economy instead of a peril...
...Face of Fu Manchu. The re-makers of Fu Manchu are clearly aware that the nonsense of yesteryear taps a jumpy vein of contemporary anxiety-all those diabolical Chinese, seeking ways and means to make Western civilization heel to the Yellow Peril...
...Will Stand." It was late July when the President of the U.S. summoned his aides to a three-day secret session to deliberate Viet Nam. Just back from Saigon was Defense Secretary Robert McNamara with the grim prognosis of peril. When Johnson announced his decision, it was the most significant for American foreign policy since the Korean War: "We will stand in Viet Nam." To stand meant in fact that the U.S. would go to Viet Nam in overwhelming force and stay until the job was done. Why? "If we are driven from the field in Viet Nam," the President...