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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was the answer: canvassing, talking to people in their homes. Ten thousand people ringing millions of doorbells across the country could accomplish more than 10,000 public speeches. He had found what was missing from his ideas for utilizing college manpower -- from Tocsin's "Alperovitzing...

Author: By William M. Kutik, | Title: Vietnam Summer Evolves From Phone Call To Nation-Wide Organizing Project | 5/4/1967 | See Source »

...force Hanoi to negotiate on terms we like, is more likely to bring China into the war. The escalation program seems highly unrealistic in its psychological assumptions. It is apparently based on the belief that our bombing can somehow break the will to resist of a nation with a thousand-year history of independence, which has grown up in the shadow of the Chinese revolution and is now backed by both China and Russia. We should avoid matching wills directly with Mao Tse-tung, who is if nothing else one of history's top achievers in militant will-power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAIRBANK ON THE WAR | 5/3/1967 | See Source »

This year, for the first time, PBH was not able to meet its full budget, and several thousand dollars of expenses...

Author: By Boisfeuillet JONES Jr., | Title: PBH Budget Increases, Summer Costs Mount | 5/1/1967 | See Source »

...Holy Toledo! One of the best TIME covers I've seen. Conrad even makes good play on the brand name of the scales that we see in butcher shops and bus stations from Rocky's New York to Ronnie's California. Truly a picture worth a thousand votes. Let's have more of Conrad as the boys jockey for position on the way to the starting gate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 28, 1967 | 4/28/1967 | See Source »

...Diller have mugged their way into the act. A casting call for a street worker, for example, will attract 100 candidates, some lugging along shovels and jackhammers for that authentic look. But in the end, as the Homely homily has it, it's the face that launches a thousand trips to the shopping center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Homelies | 4/28/1967 | See Source »

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