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...welcome alternative to the battlefield. The "new diplomacy" may not bring about negotiations tomorrow, but the flexibility which Johnson has introduced may well shorten the war or limit its intensity. The Russians will probably first solidify their position in the North. The Hanoi-Moscow line might then soften, and a consequent softening by Washington and Saigon may follow. When and if that happens, historians will be left to debate whether the settlement that develops could not have been reached last September...
...solution to the ugly geographical scars that divide East and West Europe is ever to be achieved, a way must first be found to soften the bitter hatreds that today-two decades after World War II-still poison the atmosphere among its peoples. Poles still recall with white-hot hate the six million dead left in the wake of Hitler's occupation. For their part, millions of West Germans bitterly demand back the "lost territories" east of the Oder and Neisse rivers taken away from Germany by the Communists after World War II. Voices of reconciliation have been...
...justice, Johnson believes that the Army should treat its involuntary employees with particular solicitude. A "private's general," he takes pride in the good chow and creature comforts that soften a draftee's adjustment to military life. New men are greeted at reception centers with brass bands. At Fort Jackson, S.C., and Fort Dix, N.J., drafty, double-decker wooden barracks are giving way to modern brick buildings that resemble campus dormitories. They have bathrooms on every level, rooms with from two to eight bunks, telephones, lounge rooms and Laundromats. There are automatic dishwashers and potato-peeling machines...
...busy that he rarely sees his three sons; he takes off one week a year to spend with them, also leaves the office to be with them on their birthdays-and that's about it. Many millionaires say that they worry that all the money may soften their youngsters, rob them of incentive and aggressiveness. To fight that possibility, Boston Real Estate Millionaire Gerald Blakeley, 45, has a rigid rule: his four sons have to earn every penny that they spend from the time that they are twelve-"and that's every penny...
...weeks, until the 63-year-old Kubitschek was sick abed with high blood pressure. At the same time, the linha dura officers were pressuring Castello Branco for new laws that would give the federal government greater control over state Governors and other elected officials. Castello Branco managed to soften their demands, and then sent the package to Congress, where the parties of Goulart and Kubitschek combined in violent opposition. When it became obvious that the government would not get a majority, Castello Branco either had to decree the Institutional Act or face a military revolt...