Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...symptomatic of the Courier's gravest problem: most of its staff members are from the North, and they are white. One hope of early Courier staffers was that local talent could be recruited, trained, and finally put in command; at the starting pay of $25 per week the first step has proved rather difficult. While most of the Courier's office workers are Negro, only three of its salaried reporters are. The rest, including Editor Michael S. Lottman '62, former managing editor of the CRIMSON and reporter for the Chicago Daily News, are graduates of or on leave from Northern...
...protests which are sure to accompany the next step in the reorganization of Cambridge traffic will come primarily from the residents of Waterhouse St. who, with horror, still remember a similar plan which the City tried ten years ago. That plan temporarily turned the Common into a large rotary by diverting southbound cars onto Waterhouse...
...million in 1966 billings) after J. Walter Thompson and Young & Rubicam, he said his piece with punch for such corporations as U.S. Steel and General Electric. In the process, he set a Madison Avenue fashion for spare and peppy prose. For Forest Lawn cemetery, he invented the phrase FIRST STEP UP TOWARD HEAVEN. Of U.S. Steel's Andrew Carnegie, he wrote: "He Came to a Land of Wooden Towns and Left a Nation of Steel...
...among many working people is amazing, he claims. "I have run into some people," he says, "who think the U.S. is fighting China in Vietnam and that Ho Chi Minh is Japanese." He is convinced that by educating them, even scantly, in Vietnamese history, he has moved many "one step closer to a dove position." Complete conversions don't happen, but at the very least, Emonds concludes, "the hawks find out that the peacniks aren't all beatniks, dope fiends, or Commies...
...alternatives have now disappeared. "Perhaps something could have been done earlier. Now it is too late." This is wrong -- as well as morally weak. Alternatives to continued and deepening involvement exist. They have even been made somewhat more feasible by the march of events. Let me, as the last step in this lengthy exercise, outline a feasible course of action which reduces our commitment in Vietnam to sensible proportions, protects the larger peace, conserves our national interest and, what could perhaps be more important, reflects the interest of the sadly beset and tortured people of this part of the world...