Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bunch of people over there at HEW," he told TIME Correspondent Loye Miller, "who, every time they see something coming they don't like, scream it's ole Strom Thurmond and Harry Dent." He insists that he serves only Richard Nixon, not Strom Thurmond, and that his real duties are mainly mundane matters of political coordination and patronage. One example: to steer Government legal work to Republican lawyers. "When I was practicing back in Columbia, I couldn't get diddly," he recalls. "Well, we're going to see that good Republicans around the country get some...
...against campus demonstrations and that you believe in the traditions and values that are under attack." Mark Doran, U.C.L.A. assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, says that "flag waving is a reaction on the part of the good guys who like their children and their wives and get real mad when anybody rocks their barbecue pits...
There are, in fact, two Las Vegases -real and illusory. The real one is a sprawling, dusty desert town in which sex education is banned in the public schools, 50-odd people committed suicide last year, and the crime rate is higher than Chicago's. A Methodist Church survey shows that 27% of Las Vegas residents are divorced. The illusory Vegas is the one that will be seen by 14 million visitors this year. Like giant mirages created by the heat vapors of the get-rich-quick furnace, the neon-lit, freon-cooled sand castles of The Strip rise...
There are, however, many changes that the U.S. can make in the way it deals with Latin America-changes that would produce both real and psychological benefits. The vast U.S. market should be opened more fully to Latin American goods. Nixon should seek to reduce congressional weight on the conduct of foreign relations, because the punitive legislation that Congress has enacted drastically reduces the President's room for maneuvering. Washington might consider channeling assistance through multinational agencies to avoid charges of political string-pulling. That would help mute the charge that the U.S. cares only about preserving the status...
...last week leaving the Dominican Republic, Rockefeller leaned back in his seat and ruminated about his mission. "The disillusionment is very real," he said of the nations he had covered. "Blame must be equally accepted throughout the Western Hemisphere. We can't cover it up. You have no idea how much we are telling these people what to do and how to do it. But there are also forces at work that do not want to see us closer together. It is very important that there be understanding that these forces do exist and that all is not well...