Word: stillnesses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...young radicals but also by businessmen and many other groups, that turned Lyndon Johnson from another term. U.S. business is more than ever on the side of an early peace, as evidenced in part by Wall Street: new peace probes or rumors generally send stock prices jumping upward. Still, it is the campuses that offer the most vocal opposition and provide the broadest base for organized protest. The entire academic community seems as stirred as ever about the lingering combat. Last week University of Michigan President Robben Fleming personally launched a two-day campus teach-in at Ann Arbor with...
Undoubtedly the majority of Americans still support the President in his search for an honorable way out of the morass in Viet Nam. But they also unmistakably want an early end to the killing. Nixon's dilemma continues to be how to fulfill those two, thus far irreconcilable demands...
...resolution still has a long road to travel before it becomes the 26th Amendment to the Constitution. Determined resistance awaits it in the Senate, where a two-thirds vote is necessary for passage, and many Senators oppose any measure that will reduce their states' leverage in presidential elections. Even if approved by the Senate, the amendment must be ratified by 38 states, some of which are understandably reluctant to give up political power that is often far out of proportion to their population. The amendment does have the support of President Nixon, who has said he will sign...
...roaders and 28% as liberals. When Field recently asked Californians to take another look at themselves, the results reflected a swing to the right. Of the 1,006 questioned in the poll released last week, 42% now see themselves as conservatives and 27% as moderates, while only 24% still feel comfortable with the liberal label...
...looks like an illusion, or worse. How, they asked, can the South Vietnamese after two decades of war successfully take on the military task that half a million American troops could not quite handle? U.S. officials reply that the Vietnamese, after all, are fighting in their own country, would still be backed up by American support troops, and may be psychologically braced by the feeling that they must finally stand on their own feet. The argument is far from convincing, but the U.S. has no choice at the moment but to give Vietnamization a fair...