Word: richness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bond addict. What does Lyndon read? When repeatedly pressed by a newsman during the 1964 campaign, the President unenthusiastically produced a much unthumbed copy of the speeches of William Jennings Bryan. Recently, however, with no prompting at all, Johnson has been touting the L.B.J. Selection-of-the-Century: The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations by Britain's Barbara Ward. It sells for a dollar in paperback, its 159 pages largely devoted to the problems of Kikuyus and Kazakhs. Yet, avows the President, "I read it like I do the Bible...
Messianic Materialism. He does indeed. Along with Isaiah and the Gospels, and in far less murky prose, The Rich and the Poor is a Baedeker to the Great Global Society. Based on a series of lectures for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. in 1961, Economist Ward's book is an evangelistic yet pragmatic argument that the developed nations must generously employ their scientific and economic resources to help the world's havenots. Johnson has repeatedly echoed the same theme...
...Ward's words: "The gap between the rich and the poor has become inevitably the most tragic and urgent problem of our day. The Christian God who bade His followers feed the hungry and heal the sick and took His parables from the homely round of daily work gave material things His benediction. It has not faded because material things are more abundant now." Author Ward defines poverty, ignorance and ill health as "the ancient enemies of mankind"a phrase the President has used repeatedly since he started reading the book. And, as Johnson has done in innumerable Great...
...above his 5-ft. 11½-in. frame, and would tickle a 20/20 elephant eye. Beyond the corn, a new crop of tomatoes was ripening; the cattle were fattening nicely; the flower garden was a colorplate right out of Burpee's seed catalogue. For Farmer Shuman, walking the rich brown soil and caressing its bounty last weekend, God was in his heaven-even if all, as usual, was far from right with the world...
...INDONESIA. The marvel is that any progress at all could have been so skillfully avoided. The $831 million in economic aid and $77.8 million in military assistance that were poured into this naturally rich country collided with the simple fact that Sukarno has no interest in economic development; he seeks empire. The U.S. program crashed when he shouted, "To hell with your aid." One salvageable irony is that the U.S. effort inspired the U.S.S.R. to give Indonesia more than $1 billion, and now Sukarno is bitter against Russians...