Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shrink by only 38,500-to 640,000-because surviving combat units would be reinforced to permit their deployment within eight weeks of call-up and some new outfits would be formed. All combat components would be in the Guard, which would have eight divisions and 18 brigades on quick-response status. The active Reserve would consist entirely of training and support units...
General William Westmoreland, who was quick to appreciate Walt's achievements-as was the Pentagon, which awarded him his third star after just nine months in Viet Nam-asked the Marine in the spring of 1966 to extend his one-year tour for six months. Then, after Walt's smashing defeat of a North Vietnamese division last summer, Westy asked him to stay another six months...
...million. When Braniff International President Harding Lawrence came to Tinker in 1965, Wells thought up the idea of painting Braniff's jets in pastel hues-and persuaded Lawrence to go along. Rich and Greene also had a hand in Braniff's "airstrip," which features stewardesses in quick-change Pucci-designed uniforms. Lawrence was delighted with the trio's part in his once stodgy airline's subsequent success. When Wells, Rich and Greene took off on their own, Braniff's president switched his $6,500,000 account to the new firm to assist their climb...
Fascinated with the success of that venture, Ackerman called in Trautman, then a San Francisco lawyer, set him to reorganizing Greyhound as a holding company. In quick succession, Greyhound picked up an industrial catering company that feeds workers at General Motors, hospitals and other institutions, a Manhattan fire and casualty insurance company, a Southeastern chain of restaurants and gas stations. It bought Travelers Express Co., the U.S.'s second largest money-order firm (after American Express) in 1965, last year set up an $85 million computer-renting subsidiary. Greyhound is even in bus building, set up Motor Coach Industries...
...moreover, of failure at the polls need be "demoralizing" to Mr. Lardner only if he's built up unrealistic hopes in himself and others beforehand. The price Americans pay for failing to have any kind of historical consciousness is that "success" is defined in terms of immediate payoffs and quick victories. I personally would define "success" as beginning to channel the chaotic energy of Watts and Harlem into political institutions capable of bringing organized power to bear against established political groups. Maybe by 1980 "success" would include victory at the polls, but for now goals must be more limited...