Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...balky institutions-what can the President do? Much of the advice that he has been tendered reflects the impatience inherent in the American temperament. J. Irwin Miller, a leading Republican and a much respected Middle West business leader, believes that the problems of the ghettos, crime and domestic unrest are so critical that they justify "going to war." By this he means mobilizing the nation as in World War II, when all of its energies were focused on the one goal of defeating Germany and Japan. The Kerner Commission on civil disorders said that the country's greatest need...
...President has a far more effective podium than any band of writers and academics, but Johnson rarely used it to good effect when the Viet Nam debate became virulent, or when the nation became confused and distressed over racial unrest. He might have survived the assault if he had earlier amassed a reservoir of popular confidence. This he had never really done. He tried to come across as the protean President, large in heart and body and energy, but that aura was not consonant with all-too-accurate stories of his pettiness, his bullying of aides, his unnecessary deceptions...
...number of Harvard luminaries have joined the parade. This fall in the Atlantic former dean of the Faculty McGeorge Bundy proposed a juiced-up version of the Harvard system with an ultra-strong, faculty-oriented President as a model for University government. Last month Dean Ford analyzed student unrest for Harvard Today, separating dissatisfied students into four groups and recommending a different strategy for dealing with each. Now John Kenneth Galbraith comes forward with "A Case for Constitutional Reform at Harvard...
...riots that rattled the foundations of De Gaulle's Fifth Republic and five weeks after a monetary crisis that threatened to bring down the franc, France remains troubled and uneasy. Prices are rising. So are taxes, as a part of De Gaulle's new austerity program. Unrest continues to ripple across France's universities and factories, the centers of last spring's upheavals. All over the country, Frenchmen are worried that fresh economic crises or new disorders may break out. Some questioned the ability of De Gaulle and Premier Couve de Murville to cope with...
...nation's policemen. At that time, recalls Bangor Punta President David Wallace, "we didn't foresee any social revolution." But Smith & Wesson's sales have since risen from less than $10 million to $16 million. Wallace is now capitalizing on the philosophy that "the more social unrest there is, the greater the need for lawenforcement equipment that is more sophisticated than the billy club...