Word: rebuilder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert Kennedy's vision outreached his program. He saw the slums and called for private investment to revitalize them, never doubting that the businessmen who had helped destroy the cities would be eager to rebuild them. His plans to resurrect Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, started only by virtue of his personal resolve, are now in a shambles. The bombing in Asia he deplored -- without questioning the basic tenets of American foreign policy -- is still destroying villages and killing people. He never left behind his liberal convictions, never saw the evil about him as a logical outgrowth of the American system...
...BIGGEST roadblocks to solving the problems of USU's crumbling football dynasty is what to do with the offensive line. To return to the unchallenged dominance USU enjoyed in '68 and '72 the team must rebuild the offensive protection. And already the house cleaning has begun. The old-line veterans have been forced out and replaced by transfers from Army and Harvard...
...After reading about the torture of the P.O.W.s, all I can say is: God have mercy on President Nixon if he sends one dime to rebuild North Viet...
...Vietnam cannot forget. Five years will be required to repair the hospitals; no one knows how long it will take to rebuild the ruined cities or fill in the bomb craters -- if peace is maintained...
...other hand, Brinegar's belief that no federal money will be needed is almost surely wishful thinking. "There is no way for a bankrupt railroad to raise money other than through a federal subsidy," says one rail executive. "Even if we streamline our plant, we must still rebuild our tracks and yards and get new rolling stock." Much money will also be needed for severance pay to the union workers who would have to be cut from payrolls in any paring down to a core system, a problem that Brinegar so far has ignored...