Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greatest power can be roundly and resoundingly put down by the most minuscule of foes. The Bay of Pigs debacle in 1961 was a portent, but it was a local and limited embarrassment that was soon forgotten. North Viet Nam has also proved the efficacy of persistent, small-scale Communist effort. Yet no other Communist state, big or small, has succeeded so well in provoking and frustrating the U.S. as North Korea did last week by hijacking Pueblo...
...billion targeted by the White House. After indicating these possible concessions, Mills announced that his committee would turn to other business when it reconvenes next week. He gave no hint whether or when the tax surcharge would be reconsidered. However, if mobilizing of military reserves becomes large-scale, its extra cost and the austerity psychology evoked could well build up pressure on Mills and the House generally to reverse field...
...allied units shifted nearer the scene of the impending battle to be ready if needed, including a 1st Cavalry (airmobile) brigade helicoptered to Phu Bai, only 45 minutes' flying time from Khe Sanh. For what looked more and more like the first classic conventional battle on a major scale of the Viet Nam war, Westmoreland has deployed some 45,000 men to meet the 40,000 North Vietnamese closing in on Khe Sanh...
...composing. Last week he sat in the Wilton, Conn., glass-and-stone house that he built four years ago, tinkering with final revisions on the first fruits of his lei sure-a 63-minute oratorio, The Light in the Wilderness, an impressively imaginative step into the realm of large-scale serious composition...
...university advisers and given authority to guide federal policy. Its first task would be to seek agreement on how federal aid should be distributed. He rejected the idea of broad, unselective grants to all institutions on the ground that this would merely "perpetuate, only on a more costly scale, everything that is wrong" with higher education now. One. of his proposals was for the designation of a few high-quality existing campuses as "national universities," which would be given preferential support for their scholars and facilities...