Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...volunteer armed force limits the flexibility of response to threats. When Khrushchev got tough with President Kennedy in 1961, for example, the President easily increased U.S. might by authorizing Selective Service to have each of its 4,000 draft boards pull in more men. Presumably war on a big scale could rapidly outrun the capacities of a volunteer army, possibly requiring every able-bodied man. Reserves therefore would have to be maintained-with incentives for reservists instead of the threat of the draft. Even the draft itself probably should be kept on standby, perhaps for use with the permission...
...position circulated and accrued over 700 signatures, which makes me doubt that the Paine Hall group really represented the sentiments of a small, vocal group trying to intimidate the faculty. It should have been clear after the first Faculty meeting at Memorial Hall that some mechanism for large-scale student-faculty communication was necessary. Therefore, I cannot understand why the administration scheduled the Lowell Lecture Hall debate for the day after the Faculty meeting Dec. 12, which clearly robbed students--not just SDS, but pro-ROTC people as well as those with positions in between--of finding out where significant...
...Arab saboteurs based in Lebanon. "The mark of Cain is on the heads of the perpetrators," declared Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol. The Middle East has learned to take such Israeli warnings seriously, and Lebanon braced for some sort of reprisal. It came within 48 hours, but on a scale no one would have dared predict...
Despite the dissatisfaction among students and workers, there actually is little likelihood of any new outbreak of disorders on the scale of those in May and June. For one thing, the students lack leadership. Daniel ("Danny the Red") Cohn-Bendit, their principal leader last spring, has been banished from France, and no one has taken his place. The students are now badly splintered into rival groups. When 1,000 militant students met last week in Marseille to form a common front against De Gaulle, they squabbled so badly that they could agree only on one motion-to adjourn. For their...
...their intricate dance routines and big, glittering production numbers ("lavish" was the Depression word for them). One clever device is a movable frame inside the proscenium that makes the stage even smaller than it is, so that it can then be expanded to produce the illusion of large-scale operations. Another nice trick is one pair of panels at stage center that slide open to reveal a Chinese opium den, and still another pair that revolve to present canted mirrors, giving the tiny chorus line something of that old Busby Berkeley thundering herd effect...