Word: tactics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator Smith's candidacy and Goldwater's resultant misfortune were, it would seems, avoidable. First, he didn't have to play into Senator Smith's hands by bellowing his most distasteful positions up and down New Hampshire. This tactic gave Margaret Chase Smith a chance not only for the moralist vote, but also for the ballots of the less belligerently conservative. The unexpected sincerity of Goldwater's announcement that the Republicans "couldn't get old Barry to change his sopts" may, in fact, have prompted Mrs. Smith's belated candidacy. Had Barry been more soft-spoken--and he certainly could...
Many Jewish leaders deplore the trend. Dr. Emanuel Rackman, former head of Manhattan's Orthodox Jewish divorce court, the Beth Din, urges rabbis not to perform mixed marriages, as some Reform rabbis do. (Conservative and Orthodox rabbis insist upon the conversion of the non-Jewish partner, a tactic that often drives couples to a municipal judge or a broad-minded Protestant minister.) At the golden jubilee convention of the Farband-Labor Zionist Order last month, its leaders warned against the new spirit of assimilation in U.S. Jewry, which they said was reflected "in the alarming growth of intermarriages...
Replacing Terror. The operation, called an "eagle strike," is a tactic by which the new government and its U.S. advisers hope to add speed and initiative to anti-guerrilla operations. Though such strikes have long been used in Viet Nam for missions big and small, the program now being launched aims to carry out small-scale, search-and-seize missions as never before, especially in the heavily infiltrated delta. For the first time the U.S. Utility Tactical Transport Company based at Saigon airport has been assigned "eagle strikes" as a permanent duty...
...Blocking Tactic...
...some administrators toward moral matters leave much to be desired, and his statements this fall are not his first attempts to change these attitudes. Until now, however, he has not found much of an audience either among the student body or among the Faculty. This fall, the Dean's tactic has been to convince as many people as possible that some sort of scandal was imminent if the attitudes persisted. His campaign was a perfect example of the self-fulfilling prophecy: the "Harvard Sex Scandal" now in the news resulted directly and solely from the Dean's own ill-advised...