Word: trains
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...Truman's troubled days. "I remember in 1948," he says, "there wasn't a single person I could find who would say a good word about Harry Truman. There were 23 members of the Texas delegation, and only two of us would get on the train and ride with him." Perhaps the analogy explains the currently high influence in the White House of Lawyer Clark Clifford, who helped plan Truman's uphill campaign in 1948. In 1968, for all his sanguine murmurings today, Johnson may find himself in a similar position...
...highway bridge, the missions were planned to apply yet another turn of the screw against North Viet Nam's vital rail system. Though the U.S. has long been attacking the railways south of the buffer zone, Hanoi still imports the vast bulk of its war materiel by train. While petroleum, food and fertilizer imports come in mostly by sea, the rail system so far this year has car ried 62,000 tons of ammunition, weap ons and trucks into the north. By un loading the rail cars in the buffer zone, which the U.S. itself imposed on the area...
...gaining such expertise. A solid scholar on Viet Nam must master the Ciinese language, then Vietnamese, and also be able to handle the anthropology, economics, politics and history of that confusing country. That particular blend of ability and interest has been scarce, and it takes about ten years to train such a scholar.* The war itself, Fairbank notes wryly, should produce some men who are eager to study the area-but by the time they are ready to teach, the whole matter, hopefully, will once again be academic...
Riding the subways these days is becoming hazardous. So many people have their noses in the current best-selling book that getting on and off the train is like playing blind man's bluff in a closet--perhaps a watercloset, since what bumps into you is usually dirty. The book is Valley of the Dolls, and its theme, message, plot, and style are sex and Seconals...
...survey team believes that a core program in each university which offers a basic education to undergraduates can provide a more efficient way of utilizing the human resources which it is the university's responsibility to train and educate. From the students' points-of-view it is a more orderly transition to higher education that provides a necessary period of exploration of the career possibilities of university training. From the points-of-view of faculties, it provides an important basis on which to estimate the probabilities of the success of individual students in particular programs such as law, medicine, architecture...