Word: properity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cold war" now portends to become the "wet war." Your splendid article on the spectacular growth of Russian seapower [Feb. 23] should help in bringing our own national goals into proper perspective and bring us back down to earth from the heady atmosphere of the race in outer space. Unless there is a rebirth of national leadership in the maritime field, stemming from public awareness and concern, we may find ourselves aroused from our present apathy by what the noted naval historian, Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan called: "the rude awakening of those who have abandoned their share of the common...
...what basis might the party draft him? "I would expect now to speak out on matters of importance to the American people"-including Viet Nam-"at the proper time." As recently as Oct. 17, Rockefeller had declared: "I don't want to be President." Had the old yen returned? "If that is what the party would like and they feel I can do the job, yes." Why this new availability? "I felt I had to make some response to the action taken by Romney. But I am not the type of person who acts instantly. Things evolve with...
...Ford Foundation funds on projects designed to improve housing, schools and legal services in the neighborhood. Nonetheless, Columbia Vice President David Truman concedes that "we simply have not been tooled up to manage our public image." Other officials concede that some residents of the rooming houses were ousted without proper regard for relocation. Belatedly, the university has set up its own relocation office, sometimes offers small grants to help tenants move. The great irony of Columbia's agony is that it all could have been avoided if the university trustees had only demonstrated a little bit more foresight back...
...intellectuality of these students is one of personal and social relevance. They see around them a society which, for all its potential and promise, seems bent on destruction and the thwarting of human fulfillment. As the presumed repository of society's knowledge and wisdom, it seems proper and fitting to them that the University ought to be concerned with salvaging what worthwhile remnants of society are left. They recognize that the distinction between a socially responsible university--which Harvard admits it should be--and a politically responsible one--which Harvard maintains it is not--is frequently not a fruitful...
...interested in education as such but in furthering the discipline. The student taking the course may have been somebody going on to grad school in that discipline and beginning to develop a professional identification with it or it may have been somebody just cranking the grades out in the proper order for the proper fulfillment of his distribution requirements...