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Among students, however, who had access to greater information about the war and more time to ponder it, questions arose about the unseen enemy. In the face of a nearly total onslaught by the greatest military power in the world, why did these people continue fighting? Who were these Vietnamese, and why did they rebuild bridges with their bare hands and go into battle against an enemy that was vastly superior in the weapons of modern war? Why did they troop down the Ho Chi Minh trail, year after year, to face almost certain annihilation...
...Hedley Donovan's Essay on "The Good Uses of the Watergate Affair" [May 14] is the most brilliant, illuminating and sustained dissection of the strength that is the American democratic "system" that the free world at large has ever had the good fortune to read, ponder and digest. CHARLES H. SMITH Hamilton, Bermuda...
Food comes to mind as a metaphor because of the character Algernon's good-natured gluttony. While he and his friend Jack ponder the mess they have gotten themselves into by proposing to their beloveds under the false name of Ernest, Algy pops countless muffins into his mouth with fastidious greed. It is in such moments that the story of their romantic complications (resolved only after everyone has said a lot of terribly clever things) sows its comic seeds and reaps its harvest of laughter. The production succeeds because its cast and crew passionately commit themselves to being passionlessly...
...costs, eliminate marginal performers, and change the leadership of the agency. Among those who have gone are several of the long-entrenched top deputies of former CIA Director Richard Helms, who tended to favor the "operational men," or spies in the field, over the cerebral analysts, who ponder the intelligence and make policy recommendations. These two sides of the agency, traditionally separated, have orders to cooperate more...
...shaky, dictatorial regime of President Lon Nol. General Alexander Haig Jr., U.S. Army Vice Chief of Staff and former deputy to Henry Kissinger, was sent on a fast fact-finding tour of Indochina. While high Washington officials called the situation "abysmal" and "awful," President Nixon went off to ponder at Camp David−usually the prelude to an important announcement. Congressional Democrats fretted that the U.S. was about to bog down in still another quagmire...