Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trump Card. The U.S., which felt that Britain's earlier pledge to stay in the Far East until the mid-1970s was not nearly long enough, was naturally upset by the new schedule, delivered to Dean Rusk in Washington by Foreign Secretary George Brown. Short of registering its displeasure, though, there is little that the U.S. can do: Britain's SEATO membership, which she plans to retain, calls for no specific troop commitment. Washington's other concern was Britain's $350 million aircraft order with the U.S. for F-111 fighters. Since at least a dozen...
With a projected circulation of over 400,000, the News feels, its paper could be printed at 20% less cost than the short-lived World Journal Tribune. The News has faster, more modern presses than the WJT and is more centrally located in Manhattan. The city's big retailers, however, are remarkably slow to advertise in any untried medium; many are happy enough with the morning New York Times, the afternoon Post and the surrounding suburban papers. Running, on the average, some 30 pages fatter since the demise of the WJT, the Post feels more impregnable than ever. Despite...
...short, conducting is increasingly becoming a field for younger, more vibrant men-all the more so because of the overriding example of Leonard Bernstein. His projection and box-office appeal have made him as much the model for conductors in his era as Toscanini was in his, although, as Bernstein nears 50, even he is slackening his frenetic pace somewhat. In this image-conscious culture, every orchestra wants its conductor to have some of Bernstein's incalculable personality force-what Conductor Charles Munch calls the "magic emanation" that can lift a conductor's performances above the mere exercise...
...force of 2,900 miners, which will grow to 4,500, life around Thompson is rugged. The thermometer in midwinter hovers around-50°F., reaches zero only in late March. Housing is critically short and expensive, schools operate on split shifts because of the growing student population, food has to be shipped in from Winnipeg 400 air miles away. Contact with the outside world is through old shows on cable TV, three-day-old newspapers, or an unreliable air service that does the best it can with aging DC-3s and DC-4s. Not surprisingly, in spite of weekly...
...short, America must quickly change her war aims. Her leaders must decide that an inefficient, corrupt, fanatically anti-Communist government in Saigon for all eternity is not a valid aim of national policy. Once this is done--and Thieu's regime is appraised at something less than $25 billion annually--the problems of peace-making, phasing-out, and neutralization will get the attention they deserve in Washington. The U.S. government should find that the achievement of these goals requires no more ingenuity than the deployment of troops outside the Pentagon, the development of antipersonnel weapons, and the termination of trips...