Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Westmoreland foresees a long war and is determined to be on hand for as much of it as possible. While two years is the normal tour for top U.S. officers in Viet Nam, he has asked to stay on after his time is up this month. "The job isn't over yet," he says, "and unless it was beyond my control, I have never left any job that I hadn't finished. I have no intention of breaking that rule...
...hour stay in Japan, Humphrey also managed to attend the U.S. embassy Christmas party, and spent "an exceedingly jovial" 45 minutes with Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako. Next stop was Manila, where Humphrey attended the inauguration of the Philippines' new President, Ferdinand E. Marcos (see THE WORLD). Later that day, Humphrey flew to Clark Air Force Base, the staging hospital for all U.S. casualties from Viet Nam, spent a somber, occasionally tearful hour visiting wounded G.I.s. After Manila, the Vice President spread good will in Taipei and Seoul before heading home to give Lyndon back his Air Travel card...
...spry and fit in a dark grey business suit, the Caudillo told a nationwide radio and television audience that he wanted peace on earth, social progress, economic advancement and Gibraltar-where, he warned, Spain was "not disposed to tolerate passively" continued British rule. He also advised Spanish girls to stay in Spain instead of risking "exploitations, swindles and abuses in big foreign cities...
Otherwise, the Nation seems destined to remain its old iconoclastic self. Ebullient Carey McWilliams, 60, will remain as editor; the other half dozen full-time staffers will also stay on the job in the magazine's dowdy Greenwich Village office. Typically acerbic articles are in the works on the federal antipoverty program, the State Department, Latin American land reform and the Viet Nam war, a special worry of Storrow's. "It is no time for government by consensus," he declares. "That tends to turn into government by apathy or government by automation, where anything can go unquestioned...
...Lark. Training-school officials have to tread a thin line between mak ing school a pleasant experience in rehabilitation and just a vacation from city life. Warwick Superintendent A. Alfred Cohen says that his school is "an abnormally good environment" for the boys, but if they stay too long they will not be able to adjust to conditions at home. California's Nelles School al lows its boys to watch late-night movies on television, visit movie studios on field trips, attend monthly birthday parties. But some deliberately misbehave in order to stay longer and a few teachers think...