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...integration. Such a notion has, on occasion, been looked to as the basis for an independent status for Schools of Education, or, at the least, as providing the common core of the work of such schools. Such hopes for a science of educations seem to us to rest on quicksand...
Iowa Republican Bourke Hicken-looper, ranking G.O.P. member of the Foreign Relations Committee: "We're in the quicksand and we've got to get out. The Senate is quite generally-practically universally-in support of a vigorous pursuit of this situation in Viet Nam. There's a difference between approval and support. Many things and actions that have happened have not met with my approval. We may be injuring our cause somewhat by the constant and repeated assertions that we want to settle-which we do. But I'm afraid we create the idea that...
...time Scenarist John Gay has maneuvered the entire cast into a pesthole known as Quicksand Bottoms, there is little suspense as to what direction the plot will take, and Hallelujah goes into its what-crazy-thing-can-we-do-next phase. Soon those drunken redskins are speeding toward the horizon in ten covered wagons filled with exploding bottles of French champagne-but the white man's magic has long since lost its sparkle...
...Quicksand. In tactical terms, patchwork is about the only plausible pursuit for the U.S. in the Dominican Republic. So corrosive is the hatred between the opposing Dominican forces that there is no middle ground. Yet the military middle ground is what 20,500 U.S. paratroopers and marines now hold, getting shot at from both sides, and the political middle ground is what the U.S. seeks, while suffering polemic potshots from around the world...
Most of the middle ground has proved to be quicksand. The rebels will not even talk to U.S. Ambassador W. Tapley Bennett Jr. if only because he was the first to cry Communist about their hard-core cadres. With Bennett cut off, President Johnson sent to the scene former Ambassador John Bartlow Martin, a friend of deposed Dominican President Juan Bosch, whose "constitutionalist" symbol the rebels were carrying. But the junta headed by Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barreras remembered Martin as a promoter of Bosch and cut him cold. At that point, the U.S. had one pipeline to the junta...