Word: tending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book. Mostly it is a slow, waltz-time reminiscence of the '20s. There is much name dropping, mostly involving that jolly but too frequently trotted-out Round Table bunch at the Algonquin Hotel. Tales about Miss Grant's frequent dancing dates and about boozing and gambling all tend to crowd her irascible husband right out of the book. Perhaps for a lady who helped found the Lucy Stone League* and is now 71. all this is quite natural...
...these reasons, it is possible that many of the nation's colleges and universities will soon tend to change their relationships with the military by abolishing academic credit for ROTC courses and by generally withdrawing official university sanction from ROTC activities. Certain aspects of ROTC's position on the campuses are now specified by law (e.g., the full professorships for the militarily-appointed commanders of ROTC units), but these requirements could likely be lifted under pressure from the colleges. The armed forces need the skilled manpower provided by the colleges more than the colleges need ROTC money...
...same time, the I.R.C. has not been spared attack from a number of left-wing Laborites who tend to feel that it has accomplished too little. Though limited in staff size as well as funds, the I.R.C. has indeed played an active role in relatively few of the country's many recent mergers. One of its notable public achievements was its help, including a $42 million loan, in arranging the marriage of Elliott-Automation and English Electric into a single $990 million-a-year computer-making company. The I.R.C. has also worked behind the scenes on even bigger deals...
Thus, both American policy makers and citizens tend to think that the Vietnam war is the crucial contest of the age, with the winner taking all. The U.S. is seen to be preventing an omnipotent genie from escaping its bottle by jamming in the Vietnam stopper...
...proven himself an able administrator, albeit sometimes weak on accepting other people's ideas and innovations. It seems, sadly, that Gen. Hershey has a fatherly inclination to let the older boys play first. We fear that as coach he might tend to overlook the younger talent...