Word: protectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson has not demanded public acceptance by Hanoi to his conditions. But Thieu feels that he needs some sort of open acknowledgment to protect his own political flanks. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker put in seven strenuous sessions, some lasting more than two hours, with Thieu in the course of ten days. At first, Thieu was amenable to the U.S. terms. After meeting with his National Security Council, he flatly refused to consent to N.L.F. representation in Paris. For the moment, that was that. Thieu treads a delicate line. On the one hand are his hard-line rivals, ex-Premier Nguyen...
Though Shanker's originally stated desire to protect teachers' rights seemed reasonable enough-the Ocean Hill Board had indeed treated union teach ers arbitrarily-Shanker appears now to want something entirely different. "Teachers have been castrated," he told TIME Reporter Peter Babcox. "Until now, teachers' organizations have played around with piddling little things. There is need for upheaval, for revolutionary change. Innovation in education is not enough. You have to have power." Reasonable speculation was that Shanker, ambitious for both his own and his teachers' future, might want not only to lead all the teachers...
...Senate or the governorship, Mahoney has nonetheless managed to make and break several other men's political fortunes en route to disaster. In 1966, Mahoney narrowly won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, but his bumbling style and racist opinions (he campaigned on the slogan: "Your home is your castle-protect it!") prompted many Democrats to vote for his Republican opponent, Spiro T. Agnew...
...takeover in 1949, Peking opera, like most of the arts, was subjected to "selective reform." Still, until recently, a limited repertory of traditional Peking operas was being performed regularly in most of China's theaters. Then Madame Mao got busy undermining the works. Convinced that the arts should "protect our socialist economic base," she personally supervised the creation of new "revolutionary" librettos that would convert the opera stage from esthetic to political purposes...
Although the purpose of vaccination against German, or "three-day," measles is to protect pregnant women for the sake of the unborn, the plan is not to vaccinate women.* Instead, public health officials hope to stamp out rubella by vaccinating children; thus, as they put it, "drying up the reservoir" of susceptible subjects who spread the infection. Some time in their lives, most adults have had a touch of rubella with no ill effects, and are now immune...