Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign, Nixon frequently criticized the Democrats for handling the foreign field on a crisis-to-crisis basis without sufficient advance planning. Talking of the Eisenhower years, Nixon said that the NSC had been "the con- trolling element in our success in keeping the peace." He attributed "most of our serious reverses abroad since 1960 to the inability or disinclination of President Eisenhower's successors to make effective use of the council...
Support for protectionism naturally rises in a nation undergoing balance of payments problems. Economist Arthur Burns, a Nixon adviser, last week emphasized that one of the new President's primary tasks will be to "check the serious deterioration in foreign trade." One way would be to block some of the $32.6 billion in imports now flowing into the U.S. That would also reverse a 35-year trend to liberalized trade -at a time the world is trading more than ever. Ultimately, the U.S. can ease its travail in trade only by increasing its productivity at home and pressing...
...Edward Roberts '72, president of the Council, admitted to the freshman representatives that violations of the Council's election rules had occurred. Roberts claimed, however, and the Council over-whelmingly agreed, that these violations were not serious enough for the results to be scrapped and another election to be called...
...perhaps the most purely comic in tone, and therefore affords a splendid view of the craftsman at work, of a half century of theatrical experience synthesized into two hours and some odd of laugh piled upon laugh. That the play also manages to come briefly to grips with a serious theme is, well, downright remarkable...
...Amherst squad had been hurt badly by graduation as only three of last year's lettermen returned. Earlier in the season Amherst suffered identical 8-1 losses to Penn and Navy, the most serious threats to Harvard's second straight national title...