Word: topic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson scheduled a news conference for this afternoon with voting rights legislation expected to be his major topic...
...main topic of conversation in Danang last week was the impending arrival of two battalions of U.S. marines to help defend the airbase perimeter. But with the stepped-up Viet Cong offensives throughout the country, especially around Bongson and Danang, even they may not be enough to keep the strategically vital northern third of the country from falling to Communist arms. The U.S. air strikes to the North -no longer tit-for-tat but now steady, measured assaults on Viet Cong supply lines-must be backed up by success on the ground within South Viet Nam if Washington...
Violence was a favorite topic. Denying that comics corrupt the young, Professor Fausto Bongioanni declared: "The comics prepare a child for life. Let us accept the facts; life is not sweet." "I have found a moral decline in Walt Disney's comics," announced Professor Giovanni Bertin. "The positive character Mickey Mouse has been replaced by the negative Donald Duck. The emergence of an evil Donald Duck is a bad omen for American mores...
...feel that the long run interests and desires of the Vietnamese are incompatible with the aims of Vietnamese Communism. The Viet Cong is not as popular as some groups would have us belive. On this topic, Barry Zorthian, head of the USIA in Vietnam said, "Every bit of evidence we have points to an underlying truth-that if the peasant has a choice, he prefers the government's side in this war. The real hold the Viet Cong have over most of the countryside is through terrorism...
Harvard entered an affirmative team of Danny J. Boggs '65, and Jack R. Norton '67, and a negative team of Frank White '66, and Laird C. Kirkpatrick '65, to debate the topic that "the enforcement of morals is no concern...