Word: pull
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...means of probing and laying bare, relatively free of fast-breaking news, the big questions, the overriding issues of our times. Like any other TIME story, Essay is the product of many minds: editors, writers, researchers, correspondents-and the experts they interview. But it takes one man to pull everything together, and from the start that editor has been Henry Grunwald. Three senior editors, A. T. Baker, Champ Clark and Marshall Loeb (this week's author), have taken turns at writing Essays. Among the other writers of one or more are Douglas Auchincloss, Joe David Brown, John T. Elson...
Viet Nam is not the only situation that calls for national patience. Everywhere, from Charles de Gaulle's chauvinist challenge to the latest mob pulling down an American flag, the world relentlessly tests American forbearance. Equally so at home. The urgency of the young, the struggle for Negro rights, the plans for the Great Society, the space race -all raise expectations of quick success to balance against the need for measured progress. The ability to find the right pace and the steady strength for the long pull are more necessary than ever. Yet there is, and always has been...
Ever since Kenya became independent two years ago, Jomo Kenyatta's rallying cry has been harambee -Swahili for "all pull together." Most Kenyans have been quite happy to put aside their tribal and political rivalries and give pulling together a try. The notable exception: Oginga Odinga, 54, Vice President of the nation, deputy president of its only political party and leader of the powerful Luo tribe. A wealthy and ambitious leftist who disagrees violently with Kenyatta's moderate policies, Odinga has spent the past two years trying to pull his own government apart...
...will pull his pillar down...
...seems more than ever convinced that it needs more rather than less militancy to sustain its own revolutionary mystique at home. In any case, diplomacy is based on the practical possibility of a quid pro quo. The quid in Fulbright's proposal is that the U.S. would eventually pull out its troops. The quo? Peking can offer none, in a direct sense, since it has no Chinese troops stationed in Southeast Asia and thus can claim that it has no divisions to withdraw...