Word: rest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor; that Eisenhower achieved security through royalties; that Roosevelt and Kennedy possessed inherited wealth; and that even L.BJ. had Lady Bird. But will a President who has already gained so much from inflation, and who stands to gain so much more, feel impelled to fight it for the rest of us? Maybe "Nixon's surprise call for milder tax reform" isn't so surprising after...
...little more patience -or perhaps lots more? How to buy it from the restless young who are streaming back to the campuses? How to buy it from the rest of the country, which so far has been willing to give Richard Nixon time to extricate the U.S. from Viet Nam? With an evident sense that time may soon begin to run out, the President last week made several moves. He announced a second withdrawal of troops from combat and a two-month moratorium on the draft. He applied new pressure on the Congress to make selective service more equitable...
...altogether. At that time, the Selective Service Act of 1967 expires, and Nixon hopes to create a military of volunteers. There are strong arguments on either side of the proposal. There are those opposed who warn that it could create an elite corps of killers, dangerously isolated from the rest of American society. Those in favor of the volunteer scheme, by far the majority, claim with considerable reason that it would help cut military waste and rekindle pride in those who serve. Naturally enough, among those most enthusiastic about the idea are America's draft-age youth...
...devotion to fun produced Europe's most vigorous theater, practically a new age in popular music and a pop scene that has been emulated the world over. By contrast, the French seem hesitant, even fearful about tapping those resources of the imagination and intellect that once struck the rest of the world as being virtually inexhaustible. They have discovered, for the time being at least, that among the emptiest mantles of grandeur left by De Gaulle was his promise of a cultural renaissance...
...women, were seized and jailed after a scuffle. Left temporarily unattended in the confusion were 400 of the tribe's youngest children, as well as all of its precious cattle. "Two cows were taken by hyenas last night," said a Tangwena tribesman, "and they will probably get the rest tonight. That means we will have nothing left...