Word: risings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gimmicks. In his most recent statements, however, Nixon has dropped his call for more drastic action against North Viet Nam, notably the mining of Haiphong harbor. Last month in New Hampshire, he gave rise to the secret-plan notion by giving his "pledge" that a new Administration would "end the war and win the peace in the Pacific." He conceded that he had no "pushbutton solutions, no magic gimmicks." He was merely making the quite obvious point that any new President would be under particular pressure to stop hostilities...
...defense, which add little directly to capital formation, it does make quite a contribution to the nation's capital resources by building dams and roads, making loans, and investing in education, manpower training, health programs, research and development. The Budget Bureau estimates that these federal investments will rise from $27.3 billion in fiscal 1967 to $31.9 billion...
...preacher. When the pixy handles the pen, it can turn out a funny, wryly perceptive comedy like Marty. When the moral preceptor is in command, the result is likely to be a chalk-dusty lecture like The Passion of Josef D., with its dreary analysis of Stalin's rise to power. Chayefsky's latest work, The Latent Heterosexual, which opened at the Dallas Theater Center last week, is an unsuccessful attempt to weld the two Paddys. But the amusing eye-catcher of a title is only dimly related to the play, which is a symbolic satire...
...trouble with Heterosexual is that the play does not rise to its climactic moment but runs down to it like an unwound clock. As comedy, it is fitful; as a social comment, it is fretful, without being particularly penetrating or fresh. Considering how talky the evening is, Burgess Meredith's direction wings it along at a dancing pace with frenetic motion and effervescent, semi-psychedelic lighting. It may be an ironic reflection of the health, resilience and confidence of the U.S. spirit that the play, despite transparent distaste for American capitalism, was supported, promoted, and frequently applauded...
Officials at the Defense Department estimated that enlistment of college graduates may rise from the usual 10,000 a year to between 30,000 and 40,000. All of these soldier-scholars will become enlisted men. The number of college grads entering the ranks of officers will not change for nearly all of the approximately 150,000 new officers in the past four years have been college graduates...