Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last act, the lines spoken loudest continued to be less than entertaining and far short of enlightening. Nixon started the week in Albany, N.Y., by decrying personal invective. Later, in Pennsylvania and Michigan, he called the Democrats "that scruffy bunch" and a "disorganized rabble not to be trusted with the new leadership." In Humphrey's Minnesota, he called the Vice President "a man who has been trained to say yes" and one "who has trotted meekly along behind his master." Though some of his darts were aimed at creditable targets, Nixon's overstated attacks, as during the previous...
...wives follow their husbands to the battlefield and sometimes share their fate. Duong Thi Kim Thanh was a former airborne nurse and South Viet Nam's first woman parachutist. She regularly accompanied her husband, Brigadier General Truong Quang An, to the front, carrying a commando's short-stock M-16 rifle in one hand and cakes and gifts for the troops in the other. Two months ago, she and her husband were both killed in a helicopter crash en route to the besieged Special Forces camp...
Female Conscripts. On the other side, the Viet Cong has taken full advantage of the martial tradition of Vietnamese women, a tradition that goes back to the two Trung sisters' fight to repel Chinese invaders in A.D. 39. Running short of male conscripts, the Communists have lately recruited all-female combat units. Women now make up an estimated one-third to one-half of V.C. main-force troops...
...Here, though," he says, "you must learn a game of give-and-go, of short on-the-ground passing, of making the ball do the work, with a minimum of dribbling...
...that the Wallace movement has not died. Wallace's 13 per cent may not look like much now, but when one considers the phenomenal growth of anti-war voting strength in the last two years, it becomes clear that events can change the impossible to the possible in very short order. There is little reason to expect that President Nixon will be successful in combating the sources of the new and little-understood alienation of the American blue collar worker. Thus there is every possibility that Wallace's strength will increase during the Nixon administration...