Word: saving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that people are choosing to lead more and more insular existences rather than wanting to help people help themselves? When I read your article on Newark [March 21], I realized only too well what Mayor Addonizio meant by his statement, "America is not prepared to save its cities." He, as well as I, and many others, is aware that some of the nation's wealthiest white bedroom communities come very close to touching Newark-physically. I grew up in Short Hills, N.J., one of the most elite. And I found that after the rioting those who "have" reacted...
...communiqué explains in brief why he was one of the 20th century's great military leaders. He may not have been a grand master of strategy or tactics; yet, better than any other commander of his time save George Marshall, Ike understood what is most important in modern warfare: organization and coordination. He was, as Winston Churchill noted, a great "creative, constructive and combining genius." It is doubtful that anyone else, again save Marshall, could have melded the competitive British and American forces?not to mention the Canadians, Free French, Poles, Czechs, Dutch and assorted others?into so formidable...
...July 1958, Eisenhower sent troops to save the government of Lebanon from Nasser-oriented Arab nationalists. In November 1958, Nikita Khrushchev handed down an ultimatum to the Western allies to get out of Berlin. To resolve the issue, Eisenhower initiated a venture in personal diplomacy. Khrushchev came to the U.S., and during talks in the President's Camp David retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, agreed to lift his ultimatum. The "spirit of Camp David" was short-lived. Just before another summit conference in Paris in 1960, Khrushchev announced that the Russians had shot down an American...
...early artificial heart researcher, complained in Los Angeles that cardiologists are reluctant to try the devices "because anything artificial is looked upon with suspicion." He predicted that physicians would revise their thinking when they realize that the familiar heart drugs, in which they put great confidence today, cannot save patients whom an artificial heart might keep alive. But until man-made devices come along, Cooley intends to continue with transplants...
...they've started putting the hooks into the policemen. The brass are getting their scapegoats so they can save their own hides." That seemed reasonable enough, but Mabley ignored the possibility that the officers might be guilty and portrayed them as martyrs. "They are under a cloud of suspicion that will dog their entire police careers, even if they are vindicated," he complained. He pleaded with his readers to help find jobs for the suspended...