Word: pull
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there's one more 'nervous Nellie' in Washington after those polls." The Congressmen listened to Rusk's assurances that South Viet Nam's political crisis was easing, but few were wholly convinced. "We may have to make a decision damned soon about whether to pull out of the war," growled South Carolina Democrat L. Mendel Rivers. "The President has got to level with the American people," said House G.O.P. Leader Gerald Ford. "We don't need vindictiveness-against Fulbright or the Republicans. What we need is enlightenment...
...toward the Far East." There, the U.S. not only has committed some 330,000 men in and around South Viet Nam, but also faces the threat of indefinite Red Chinese intransigence and of fresh guerrilla wars. While a few Americans, particularly on the left, are urging the U.S. to pull out of Viet Nam, others, including Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and 15 of his colleagues, suggest that U.S. ground forces in Europe ought to be cut substantially...
...stay at its present strength of 210,000 men in order to be effective. Under pressures from the Viet Nam war, the Pentagon has already ordered a "drawdown" of 30,000 officers and specialists from Europe', may yet have to withdraw whole combat contingents. But no pull-out is in sight that would bring into question the U.S. commitment to defend Europe-unless the Russians agree to pull their forces out of East Germany...
Space Warp & Optic Energy. Some of the objects have the look of an old-fashioned surrealist leg pull. Carl Andre's Lever, for instance, is 100 ordinary firebricks laid on the floor in a straight line. Sol Lewitt's No Title is a 6-ft.-sq. jungle gym of white painted wood (the idea is to look through the structure, not at it). But essentially the new minimalart movement announces that the engineers have now decided to make art their playground.* Much as the pop artists were recruited from the ranks of commercial and advertising artists, the basic...
Weekend at Dunkirk. This random, well-photographed essay on the futility of war will prove a letdown to audiences lured by the marquee pull of Jean-Paul Belmondo. As a French soldier sweating through the British evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, Belmondo braves German bullets, saves Catherine Spaak from rape, and growls defiance in a flat Yankee accent. Seems he has been dubbed as well as drubbed, and any nuances that his gravelly, one-of-a-kind voice might have lent to the performance are effectively erased. With only one ace in the whole, the distributors of Dunkirk might have...