Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Little Viet Nam." Forbes Park, in Manila's southern suburbs, is known as the "millionaires' barrio"; here curved streets wend gracefully beneath towering acacia trees, and deep-piled lawns run down to Rorschach-shaped swimming pools. Armed guards stop every car without a Forbes Park sticker, and the suburb's residents?mostly Americans and Filipinos who earn more than 5,000 pesos ($1,250) a month?have their own golf course and polo club...
...cynical faddishness" that has not characterized the reporting of any previous U.S. war. "Today's average correspondent prefers a piece that will make people squirm and agonize. The war is being covered primarily for all bleeding hearts and for Senator Fulbright, who casts about for a way to stop it by frightening and shocking the citizenry. It is not being reported for simple souls who would like to know how it is being fought and how good are the chances that the South Vietnamese and American forces and their allies can bring off a military victory...
While taking his annual fall tour of Greece and the Balkans this month, New York Times Columnist Cyrus L. Sulzberger was making the news as well as reporting it. After a brief stop in Athens, he wrote that Greece was once again "polarizing dangerously to ward left and right." King Constantine, Sulzberger speculated, might "even temporarily suspend some of the Constitution" to meet the threat presented by "former Premier George Papandreou, the country's most popular demagogue, and his son Andreas, an engaging but arrogantly ambitious power-seeker, increasingly linked to the far-out left...
Judge Reardon, now 56 years old, is still alarmed; he thinks of his work with the ABA Committee as an effort to stop the trend he has long seen in American government. "We are moving away from the rule of law. I remember quite well what I said in Sanders Theatre that night. I would say it is still true. Our daily living has become too complex. Professionally trained people are moving away from involvement in government. Bound up in intense specialties, they lose sight of the larger object of what is good for our democracy. What we need, perhaps...
Dean Ford answered that most legal advisors believe the Selective Service law requires Harvard to send in the rankings. Thus, any Faculty resolution would probably not be able to stop the present policy of computing the ranks...