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...volley of questions from the floor. Did the candidate have any presidential ambitions? "It's taken me all my life," he allowed, "to get up the nerve to do what I'm doing-and that's as far as my dreams go." If, as many professionals predict, Reagan unseats Democratic Governor Pat Brown in November, his dreams-and the Creative Society-may go farther...
...purpose of this lecture to predict what the delivery of medical care will be like in the year 2000, but it will be quite different than it is today, and change will come about as the result of a variety of forces. The important point I should like to make is that medical education should prepare the student to cope with a changing world and to contribute in a thoughtful and objective way to the changing pattern of medical care...
...University of Illinois Psychologist Charles Osgood declared that "an opponent can be bombed into surrender or even into nonexistence, but he cannot be bombed into honest negotiations." Up to a certain point, he said, escalation actually increases an opponent's resolve, and this "critical point" is difficult to predict...
...victory in Danang was a significant strike toward stability but hardly the end of his troubles. "Certainly the Ky government is stronger today than it was two weeks ago," said one Saigon expert, "but two weeks from now? It is a rash, rash man who would try to predict." For one thing, Buddhist Political Leader Thich Tri Quang was still in Hué, South Viet Nam's capital of discontent, which was in rebel hands...
...impossible to predict what will happen between now and November in Vietnam, but whatever does happen will affect the results of the 1966 congressional elections. The Vietnamese--Catholics, Buddhists, or Viet Cong, General Ky or Ho Chi Minh--are hardly likely to stand still for the next few months and wait for the election returns. It seems safe only to say that the U.S. will not have gained either victory or peace by the time the electorate speaks in November...