Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rudd wants, let's call it, a revolution. His activities--stopping registration, holding buildings as ransom for six demands--have been an attempt to influence decisions students normally couldn't change and building strength for an even greater power in decisions. But how what the revolutionaries are doing at Columbia ties into what they hope is a world revolution Rudd can't tell...
More receptive, perhaps, than even Krock would welcome. The nation is, as he describes it, quite obviously torn and tormented by the problems of an age more complex than man has ever known. Yet not even Krock is convinced that his rumblings of impending doom should be taken full strength. With the innate humor he seldom displayed in 60 years of portentous prose, he recalls in his memoirs the advice once offered him by Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Cheer up, Arthur. Things have seldom been as bad as you said they were...
Blacks mounted several congressional campaigns this spring and showed some voting strength. The New Democratic Coalition has no contacts yet with liberal forces within the conservative state...
Abrams' caution is understandable, since there are signs that the enemy may have actually improved his position. Infiltration of North Vietnamese regulars into South Viet Nam continues at a record rate-so much so that Viet Cong and North Vietnamese units are considered back up to full strength after their recent losses. In some areas, replacements are of higher quality than ever before; they have evidently come from training units long held back in the safety of the North. The Communist supply lines and communications network have been improved enormously by feverish labor on the roads and trails through...
...strength of his teen-age record, Ashe earned a scholarship to U.C.L.A., where he won two U.S. Intercollegiate championships, joined the R.O.T.C. and graduated with a commission in the Army. "I'd be proud to go to Viet Nam," he said, but the Army assigned him to West Point as a systems analyst, a job that allows him time to play in tournaments and compete for the U.S. Davis Cup team...