Word: stream
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...Swelling Stream. A substantial part of the President's speech was given over to the war, a remarkable change of emphasis from his 1965 State of the Union address, which contained only 126 words on the Viet Nam conflict. This time, Johnson carefully and lucidly redefined the principles behind the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia. In keeping with the almost bland tone that he brought to the rest of the speech, he managed to discuss a white-hot situation without so much as a hint of belligerence. Yet there was an unmistakable undertone of strength and determination...
...which we live," he said. "History does not favor a single system or belief unless force is used to make it so. Six years ago, North Viet Nam decided on conquest; and from that day to this, soldiers and supplies have moved from North to South in a swelling stream-swallowing the remnants of revolution in aggression." The U.S. commitment in Viet Nam, he said, is based on the fact that "around the world are countries whose independence rests in large measure on confidence in America's word and in America's protection. To yield to force...
...basic plant, the ninth domestic petrochemical operation for fast-growing Phillips, will be erected on 400 acres of sugar-cane fields in Guayama district on Puerto Rico's south shore. Phillips will invest $45 million in the core plant, receive a twelve-year tax forgiveness, get on stream in 21 months. Then the company will reinvest its earnings for ten years (to a total of $55 million) in a string of satellite petrochemical plants on 2,600 surrounding acres. The satellites will be owned jointly by Phillips, other U.S. companies and Puerto Rican investors, will turn out urea...
Despite the Administration's repeated, unequivocal insistence that it will not accept North Viet Nam's give-up-and-get-out terms for calling off the Vietnamese war, Washington continues to receive a stream of meretricious reports that Hanoi has decided to negotiate in good faith. Last week, at a time that could hardly have been better calculated to arouse Americans' hopes of peace and good will, Ho Chi Minh's latest and least likely offer landed on the world's front pages...
Arthur was already looking past the ivied walls and seeking contact with the larger world of affairs. To Schlesinger's rambling, brown-shingled house on Irving Street in Cambridge, across the back fence from the Galbraiths', came a steady stream of visitors. "There always seemed to be someone in the spare bed," says Mary McCarthy. "I remember once being asked, 'Do you mind sleeping in Joe Alsop's sheets?' " But among all the diverse types who trooped to the Schlesinger house, Novelist McCarthy cannot recall ever having met a Republican. "Arthur just doesn...