Word: signs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...build a typical Hollywood set somewhere in Florida, with a nice 10,000-ft. airstrip and an air terminal with a big sign reading HABANA splashed across the front of it, staffed with a group of Miami Cubans making like Havana Cubans, guns and all? Our airliners could land there in confidence...
...question the durability of their power. After the anguished strain of World War II, the country quickly learned to live with a cold war, making rather enlightened attempts to maintain peace and justice in the postwar world. To achieve world stability, the U.S. concentrated on foreign policy-a sign of growing maturity in a once isolationist nation -and let economic and educational growth at home more or less take care of themselves. They did, but not always for the best...
...taught some lessons that should make the assessment somewhat easier. Washington is less likely to intervene in an unstable foreign country without much harder look at the military dimensions of the commitment. Taken to the extreme, this attitude could turn isolationism; as it is, it is probably a sign of a healthy national reevaluation. Talking about U.S. Pacific Edwin Reischauer, former Ambassador to Japan, that the U.S. adopt a "lower profile," or what the Japanese call a "low posture." None of this suggests that the U.S. should- r could- withdraw into a Fortress America. But it does suggest does suggest...
...Operation Drought," reads the sign on the Pan American Highway 55 miles northeast of Santiago, the capital of Chile. Soldiers have built a tent city there, and government technicians are drilling deep wells in search of water. A few miles up the road, schoolboys play soccer in the dried-out bed of the Aconcagua, normally a mighty river. Even farther to the north, water from the near-dry Recoleta Dam is rationed-four days running, ten days shut...
Bruner said he is "puzzled" that any experiment short of merger is impossible under present arrangements. He said it is possible Radcliffe will make an "unambiguous sign," such as putting Currier House under Harvard disciplinary regulation, in the future...