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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anyone with a little talent at historical extrapolation can see that the U.S. Government is on a collision course not only with the Third World but also with its own young, black and disenchanted. True, there appears to be at the moment no Lenin or Robespierre prepared to precipitate the revolution, but then there may be no need for one. U.S. society will simply begin to collapse under the weight of its own complexity (a foretaste of which we periodically see in New York City), and would-be revolutionaries will have only to step into a ready-made state...
...result, housing, which has only recovered from the 1966 squeeze, seems certain to suffer again (see BUSINESS). Car sales may also slow down. But no one seems very alarmed. "I don't see any drastic reaction," says Economist Beryl Sprinkel of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank. "It just seems to confirm the view that this time the policymakers really mean business...
...late '40s Americans never tolerated a peacetime military force large enough to be influential. That has changed radically. What Dwight Eisenhower called the military-industrial complex* constitutes an enormous power bloc that now embraces manufacturers, organized labor, local business interests, many scientists and nonprofit organizations that get defense contracts (see box opposite). Yet it is difficult to show a precise cause-and-effect relationship between the defense complex and the generation of a specific conflict...
Most mystifying of all in the era of flawless space shots is the fact that the military often seems unable to develop new weapons on schedule and in working order. Some projects turn out well, of course, such as the SR-71 reconnaissance plane (see SCIENCE). But the new tank program is a mess, with three separate projects years behind schedule and far in the red. The M-16 rifle now in use in Viet Nam is a sound weapon, but it went into full production inexcusably late. For a time the Communists, with their new Russian-designed...
...opened the congress with a short televised speech. He appeared robust and rotund despite his 75 years. The main address was delivered by his chosen successor, Defense Minister Lin Piao (see box). Hunched on a stool, the frail Lin, 61, read a thick manuscript that analyzed the results of the Cultural Revolution and set out the newest orders for the party. After Lin's address, the 1,512 delegates split up into working groups to discuss Lin's report...