Word: thanklessness
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...President's designation of Lodge last week was a natural, Lodge's acceptance seemed less so. He certainly can expect no personal or political reward from the thankless Saigon assignment. If the Viet Nam war situation worsens, he can just as certainly expect to be blamed. Why, then, did he take the job? The answer could be found only in terms of a sense of service. Vacationing in Massachusetts when his appointment was announced, Lodge said of Viet Nam: "Something noble and brave is going on out there, and I am glad to have a part...
...Government team had been given a thankless assignment: explaining the U.S. presence in Viet Nam to college students and professors...
...sheriff's deputies and the horsemen. Many Negroes picked up cans and rocks and hurled them at the police. As the deputies crowded in, they were stopped by Selma's Public Safety Director Wilson Baker, a bitter enemy of Clark's who has done his thankless best to keep peace in the city. Said Baker to Clark: "Sheriff, keep your men back." Replied Clark: "Everything will be all right. I've already waited a month too damn long...
Administering money and various other social remedies to these families is a massive, complex and thankless undertaking for the 12,600 people in the city's Welfare Department. Though most of the 6,000 workers classified as investigators are not trained specifically in social work, the state requires them to be college graduates. They handle a minimum of 60-and as many as 100-cases apiece, and each of these "clients" should ideally be getting weekly attention, an obvious impossibility. "If you try to be conscientious," says one investigator, "you go crazy." Says another, who quit: "Sometimes...
Heads on a Pole. Khan found himself suddenly in the debt of another aspirant to his thankless job. Ky's group demands that Khanh clean house on all "corrupt, dishonest and counterrevolutionary" army officers, civil servants and profiteers-and threatens Khanh's ouster if those rather sweeping conditions are not met. But who is to say who, in all of South Viet Nam, is "corrupt, dishonest and counter-revolutionary"? Now, in addition to the steady pressures exerted on him by Catholics and Buddhists, Punch Toy Premier Khanh faces the even more random fists of self-seeking Young Turks...