Word: richness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Building in Washington's Foggy Bottom, office windows glow far into the night. Presidential address-drafters (Contingency Division) are apparently preparing for every eventuality. One draft of a possible Johnson TV address to the nation, found scribbled on the flyleaf of an abandoned copy of Barbara Ward's The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations, reportedly reads as follows...
...CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). Skinny and Fatty is the story of a poor, skinny kid who helps his fat, rich chum learn the ropes in and out of school. Repeat...
...setting up an embassy in the new republic of South Yemen, where the Russians have their eye on the former British naval installation at Aden; the installation not only controls entry to the Red Sea but is an ideal base from which to expand influence into the oil-rich sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf. The Soviets may also be able to use the facilities of the big British naval base at Singapore, which Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew has said he will rent to all comers after the Royal Navy pulls out in 1971. The big question in the Mediterranean...
...assessment of the national mood under the stress of the Viet Nam war. The onlooker: Freelancer Dan Wakefield, 35. While Mailer indulges in broad polemics, Wakefield prefers quiet irony. Roaming the U.S., or the "Supernation," for four months, he discovered within it two nations. Not the traditional rich and poor. Not even the generation gap, though that exists. But what might be called the organizational gap. The well-organized, Wakefield found, generally support the war in Viet Nam; the organizational dropouts...
Wakefield deftly shuttles back and forth between the two nations, from the cops to the hippies, from Kiwanians to the ghettos, from an energetic retirement village to a listless Indian reservation. The organization men, rich or poor, high or low, spout a lifeless, insensitive jargon. The unorganized are often speechless. Wakefield could hardly coax any words out of a young Indian man at a Phoenix school. But a white teacher was full of answers, such as "There are ten sociological variables which influence why Indian students become dropouts." Yet, Wakefield found grounds for hope. An Indian militant was distributing cards...